About the Barriers to Reaction of CCl4 with HFeOH and FeCl2
The reactivity of iron nanoparticles in aqueous environments has received considerable attention due to their potential utilization in environmental remediation technologies. As part of a broader program aiming at an improved understanding of the mechanisms involved in the degradation of harmful chlorocarbons, joint experimental and computational studies of model systems were initiated. We previously reported on the reaction of one and two Fe atoms reactions with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in direct mimic of “atom-dropping” experiments, with insights into the formation of novel iron-carbon-chlorine complexes, their structures and possible reaction mechanisms. Increasing the level of complexity, we report here on the modeling of the reaction of HFeOH and CCl4 as companion research of recent ultra high vacuum experiments of the reaction of Fe with water and CCl4. HFeOH is a stable molecular species formed in the reaction of Fe with H2O. Experimentally the (Fe, H2O, CCl4) system showed no reactivity up to the desorption temperature of CCl4. Electron correlated CCSD(T) calculations (at DFT(B3LYP) optimized structures) indicated an energy barrier to reactivity of 24.5 kcal/mol following the formation of a stable ( 7.5 kcal/mol) long-range precursor complex. This finding is consistent with the lack of experimentally detected reaction products. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences' Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is operated by Battelle for the US Department of Energy.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 1025656
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-71746; KC0303020
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115(31):8713-8720, Journal Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115(31):8713-8720 Journal Issue: 31 Vol. 115
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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