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Description of Si and Al Release from Aluminoslicate in the Acidic Condition Using Density Functional Theory: Protonated Terminal Oxygen

Version 1 : Received: 1 May 2022 / Approved: 6 May 2022 / Online: 6 May 2022 (08:23:06 CEST)

How to cite: Zhang, C.; Yu, Y.; Yang, H.; Wang, L.; Zhong, M.; Lin, S.; Zhang, Z.; Wu, Y.; Xu, W. Description of Si and Al Release from Aluminoslicate in the Acidic Condition Using Density Functional Theory: Protonated Terminal Oxygen. Preprints 2022, 2022050062. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0062.v1 Zhang, C.; Yu, Y.; Yang, H.; Wang, L.; Zhong, M.; Lin, S.; Zhang, Z.; Wu, Y.; Xu, W. Description of Si and Al Release from Aluminoslicate in the Acidic Condition Using Density Functional Theory: Protonated Terminal Oxygen. Preprints 2022, 2022050062. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0062.v1

Abstract

The molecular clusters ((HO)3Si-O-Si(OH)3, and (HO)3Al-O-Si(OH)3 ) representative of aluminosilicate mineral surface were employed to study the dissolution of aluminosilicate in acidic condition via density functional theory with the M06-2X+G(d,p) methodology. The surface termination sites (Si and Al) were both tetra-coordinated and the terminal oxygen was protonated in acidic condition. In the dissolution reaction, the calculated barrier height of the six-membered ring transition state complex containing two water molecules was predicted to be lower than that of four-membered ring transition state complex containing one water molecule. In addition, the calculated barrier heights for Al-terminated sites were predicted to be lower than those for the Si-terminated sites, suggesting that breaking the Al-O bond is easier than Si-O bond in the aluminosilicate mineral surface; the barrier heights of the surface termination sites with protonated terminal oxygen were lower than those without protonated terminal oxygen. With the fracture of Si-O and Al-O bonds, the Si and Al release from the aluminosilicate. These results confirm the experimental conclusions that the acidic condition facilitates the release of Si and Al from the aluminosilicate, and the concentration of Al leaching from aluminosilicate is higher than Si.

Keywords

Aluminosilicate mineral; Dissolution; Protonated terminal oxygen; DFT

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Theoretical Chemistry

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