Adsorption and ring-opening of lactide on the chiral metal surface Pt(321){sup S} studied by density functional theory
- Department of Physics, Campus Plaine - CP 231, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels (Belgium)
We study the adsorption and ring-opening of lactide on the naturally chiral metal surface Pt(321){sup S}. Lactide is a precursor for polylactic acid ring-opening polymerization, and Pt is a well known catalyst surface. We study, here, the energetics of the ring-opening of lactide on a surface that has a high density of kink atoms. These sites are expected to be present on a realistic Pt surface and show enhanced catalytic activity. The use of a naturally chiral surface also enables us to study potential chiral selectivity effects of the reaction at the same time. Using density functional theory with a functional that includes the van der Waals forces in a first-principles manner, we find modest adsorption energies of around 1.4 eV for the pristine molecule and different ring-opened states. The energy barrier to be overcome in the ring-opening reaction is found to be very small at 0.32 eV and 0.30 eV for LL- and its chiral partner DD-lactide, respectively. These energies are much smaller than the activation energy for a dehydrogenation reaction of 0.78 eV. Our results thus indicate that (a) ring-opening reactions of lactide on Pt(321) can be expected already at very low temperatures, and Pt might be a very effective catalyst for this reaction; (b) the ring-opening reaction rate shows noticeable enantioselectivity.
- OSTI ID:
- 22416056
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 142, Issue 4; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
ACTIVATION ENERGY
ADSORPTION
ATOMS
CATALYSTS
CHIRALITY
DEHYDROGENATION
DENSITY FUNCTIONAL METHOD
DIFFUSION BARRIERS
EV RANGE
LACTATES
MOLECULES
PLATINUM SULFIDES
POLYMERIZATION
POTENTIALS
REACTION KINETICS
SURFACES
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
VAN DER WAALS FORCES