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Title: Thermodynamics of Metal Carbonates and Bicarbonates and Their Hydrates for Mg, Ca, Fe, and Cd Relevant to Mineral Energetics

Journal Article · · Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory

The heats of formation of carbonate, bicarbonate and bicarbonate/hydroxide metal complexes and hydrated versions these complexes of Mg2+, Ca2+, Fe2+, and Cd2+ are predicted from atomization energies using correlated molecular orbital theory at the CCSD(T) level extrapolated to the complete basis set limit following the Feller-Peterson-Dixon (FPD) approach. Using the calculated gas phase values and the available experimental solid state values, the cohesive energies of selected minerals were calculated. The gas phase decomposition energies into MO, CO2 and H2O follow the order Mg ~ Ca > Cd ~ Fe, and correlate with the hardness of the metal +2 ions. Gas phase hydration energies show that the order is Mg > Fe > Ca ~ Cd. There are a number of bulk hydrated Mg and Ca complexes that occur as minerals but there are few if any for Fe and Cd, suggesting that a number of factors are important in determining the stability of the bulk mineral hydrates. The FPD heats of formation were used to benchmark a range of density functional theory exchange-correlation functionals, including those commonly used in solid state mineral calculations. None of the functionals provided chemical accuracy agreement (± 1 kcal/mol) with the FPD results The best functionals are ωB97X and ωB97X-D with mean average unsigned errors of 10 kcal/mol.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1605353
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-150219
Journal Information:
Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory, Journal Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 124; ISSN 1089-5639
Publisher:
American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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