J. Limtrakul et al., Adsorption of carbon monoxide in H-ZSM-5 and Li-ZSM-5 zeolites: an embedded ab initio cluster study, J MOL CAT A, 153(1-2), 2000, pp. 155-163
The absorption of carbon monoxide with H-ZSM-5 and metal-substituted Li-ZSM
-5 zeolites has been investigated by using both cluster and embedded cluste
r approaches at the HF/6-31G(d,p) level of theory. For the H-ZSM-5 zeolite,
the binding energy of CO on a 3T quantum cluster is predicted to be 2.25 k
cal/mol for the C-bound complex. The O-bound complex was found to be less s
table by about 0.84 kcal/mol. inclusion of the Madelung potential was found
to increase the acidity of the Bronsted acidic site and the GO-binding ene
rgy to 4.95 kcal/mol, consequently, it leads better agreement with experime
ntal observation. Similar results were also obtained for the Li-ZSM-5/CO co
mplex. The Madelung potential field from the zeolite framework was found to
reverse the order of relative stability of C-bound and O-bound adducts in
comparison to the Li+-CO system. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights
reserved.