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. 2016 Jan 30;37(3):366-77.
doi: 10.1002/jcc.24242. Epub 2015 Oct 31.

Buckybowls as adsorbents for CO2, CH4, and C2H2: Binding and structural insights from computational study

M Althaf Hussain  1 , Dolly Vijay  2 , G Narahari Sastry  1
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Buckybowls as adsorbents for CO2, CH4, and C2H2: Binding and structural insights from computational study

M Althaf Hussain et al. J Comput Chem. .

Abstract

Noncovalent functionalization of buckybowls sumanene (S), corannulene (R), and coronene (C) with greenhouse gases (GGs) such as CO2 , CH4 (M), and C2 H2 (A) has been studied using hybrid density functional theory. The propensity and preferences of these small molecules to interact with the concave and convex surfaces of the buckybowls has been quantitatively estimated. The results indicate that curvature plays a significant role in the adsorption of these small molecules on the π surface and it is observed that buckybowls have higher binding energies (BEs) compared with their planar counterpart coronene. The concave surface of the buckybowl is found to be more feasible for adsorption of small molecules. BEs of small molecules towards π systems is CO2 > A > M and the BEs of π systems toward small molecules is S > R > C. Obviously, the binding preference is dictated by the way in which various noncovalent interactions, such as π···π, lone pair···π, and CH···π manifest themselves on carbaneous surfaces. To delineate the intricate details of the interactions, we have employed Bader's quantum theory of atoms in molecule and localized molecular orbital energy decomposition analysis (LMO-EDA). LMO-EDA, which measures the contribution of various components and traces the physical origin of the interactions, indicates that the complexes are stabilized largely by dispersion interactions.

Keywords: adsorption; buckybowls; capture; curvature; dispersion; noncovalent interactions.

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