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arXiv 2004.07432cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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过渡金属簇合物活化甲烷C $-$ H键的理论研究:非谐效应的作用

Theoretical Insights into C$-$H Bond Activation of Methane by Transition Metal Clusters: The Role of Anharmonic Effects

Preeti Bhumla, Manish Kumar, Saswata Bhattacharya

摘要:

针对甲烷活化的材料设计,我们研究了温度($T$),压力($p$)依赖的组成,结构和稳定性的金属氧化物簇在反应性气氛中使用的原型模型催化剂具有广泛的应用:自由过渡金属(Ni)簇在氧气和甲烷的组合气氛。一个强大的方法的方法,表明传统的谐波近似惨败这类材料和捕获非谐波效应的振动自由能的贡献是必不可少的。为了在振动自由能中考虑非谐性,我们采用混合密度泛函理论和{ \em ab initio}分子动力学模拟输入,通过热力学积分方法计算了团簇的过剩自由能.我们发现非谐效应对检测C $-$ H键的活化有显著的影响,而谐波红外光谱由于对振动模式的错误预测而完全失效。

英文摘要:

Aiming towards materials design for methane activation, we study temperature ($T$), pressure ($p$) dependence of the composition, structure, and stability of metal oxide clusters in a reactive atmosphere using a prototypical model catalyst having wide applications: free transition metal (Ni) clusters in a combined oxygen and methane atmosphere. A robust methodological approach is employed, to show that the conventional harmonic approximation miserably fails for this class of materials and capturing anharmonic effects to the vibration free energy contribution is indispensable. To incorporate the anharmonicity in the vibrational free energy, we evaluate the excess free energy of the clusters numerically by thermodynamic integration method with hybrid density functional theory and {\em ab initio} molecular dynamics simulation inputs. We find that the anharmonic effect has a significant impact in detecting the activation of C$-$H bond, whereas the harmonic infrared spectrum completely fails due to the wrong prediction of the vibrational modes.

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