Adsorption of 2-chlorophenol on Cu2O(111)–CuCUS: A first
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Adsorption of 2-chlorophenol on Cu2O(111)–CuCUS: A first
G Model APSUSC-19790; No. of Pages 7 Applied Surface Science xxx (2010) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Surface Science journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/apsusc Adsorption of 2-chlorophenol on Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS: A first-principles density functional study Mohammednoor Altarawneh a, Marian W. Radny b,*, Phillip V. Smith b, John C. Mackie c, Eric M. Kennedy c, Bogdan Z. Dlugogorski c, Aloysius Soon d, Catherine Stampfl d a Chemical Engineering Department, Al-Hussein, Bin Talal University, P.O. Box 20, Ma’an, Jordan School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia School of Engineering, Process Safety and Environment Protection Group, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia d School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia b c A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Available online xxx First-principles density functional theory and a periodic-slab model have been utilized to investigate the adsorption of a 2-chlorophenol molecule on a CuO(1 1 1) surface with a vacant Cu surface site, namely Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS. Several vertical and flat orientations have been studied. All of these molecular configurations interact very weakly with the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface, an observation which also holds for clean copper surfaces and the Cu2O(1 1 0):CuO surface. Hydroxyl-bond dissociation assisted by the surface was found to be endoergic by 0.42–1.72 eV, depending predominantly on the position of the isolated H on the surface. In addition, the corresponding adsorbed 2-chlorophenoxy moiety was found to be more stable than a vacuum 2-chlorophenoxy radical by about 0.76 eV. Despite these predicted endoergicities, however, we would predict the formation of 2-chlorophenoxy radicals from gaseous 2chlorophenol over the copper (I) oxide Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface to be a feasible and important process in the formation of PCDD/Fs in the post-flame region where gas-phase routes are negligible. ß 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: 2-Chlorophenol PCDD/F Polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins Polychlorodibenzofurans CuO DFT calculations 1. Introduction It is widely accepted that copper surfaces enhance the formation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), or dioxins for short [1]. In particular, copper oxide compounds are believed to be the most efficient catalysts for such processes. Copper oxides operate through two pathways. The first is the so-called de novo route which is characterized by the burnoff of the carbon matrix (highly ordered carbon composites present in the ash) together with chlorination and oxidation reactions followed by the release of dioxins from the carbon matrix. The second route is through catalyzing the self-coupling of direct precursors such as chlorophenols, chlorophenoxy radicals and chlorobenzenes [2,3]. The 2-chlorophenol molecule C6H5ClO is composed of a benzene ring with a hydroxyl group and a chlorine atom bonding to adjacent positions on the benzene ring. The recent experimental work by Dellinger’s group has been very useful in understanding the mechanisms underlying the role of copper oxides in facilitating the condensation of chlorophenols into dioxins. A central step in their experimentally supported mechanisms was the fission of the hydroxyl bond and the * Corresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 4921 5447; fax: +61 2 4921 6907. E-mail address: Marian.Radny@newcastle.edu.au (M.W. Radny). formation of a surface-bound oxygen-centered 2-chlorophenoxy moiety [4,5]. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) measurements suggested electron transfer from the copper oxide surface to the adsorbed 2-chlorophenoxy radical, resulting in the formation of a chlorophenolate. The proposed subsequent steps toward the formation of dioxins take place via the Langmuir–Hinshelwood (L–H) and Eley–Rideal (E–R) mechanisms [4,5]. The (L–H) mechanism involves reaction between adsorbed species, while the (E–R) mechanism involves reaction between a gaseous species and an adsorbed species. This study is part of our on-going effort to address the interaction between chlorophenol and copper surfaces as the initial and important step in understanding the catalytic effect of copper. In recent papers, we have investigated theoretically the interaction modes between a 2-chlorophenol molecule and the clean (1 1 1) and (1 0 0) copper surfaces [6,7]. We have found that non-dissociative modes of 2-chlorophenol interacting with these clean copper surfaces, in either flat or vertical orientations, are very weakly bound to the surfaces, whereas dissociation of the hydroxyl group on these two surfaces is exoergic. The termination of the clean surfaces was shown not to have any significant effect on the general features of the interaction modes. A model for copper oxides using a single isolated CuO dimer has been shown to account for the main features of Dellinger’s experimental model in terms of the formation of a chlorophenolate 0169-4332/$ – see front matter ß 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.01.101 Please cite this article in press as: M. Altarawneh, et al., Adsorption of 2-chlorophenol on Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS: A first-principles density functional study, Appl. Surf. Sci. (2010), doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.01.101 G Model APSUSC-19790; No. of Pages 7 2 M. Altarawneh et al. / Applied Surface Science xxx (2010) xxx–xxx moiety and the facile nature of the hydroxyl fission process [8]. However a more representative model has been presented in our recent study of an extended Cu2O surface containing Cu–O bonds in the outermost layer, namely the Cu2O(1 1 0):CuO surface [9]. While the non-dissociative modes of interaction of the 2chlorophenol were again found to be only weakly bound, the formation of a 2-chlorphenoxy moiety on the Cu2O(1 1 0):CuO surface was determined to be endoergic, in contrast to the clean surfaces where it was exoergic. In order to make conclusive statements about the interaction of the 2-chlorophenol molecule with copper surfaces in general, and copper oxide surfaces in particular, it is essential to study the chemisorption of this molecule on another Cu2O surface. In this paper, we present the results of a density functional theory (DFT) study of the interaction between a 2-chlorophenol molecule and a Cu2O(1 1 1) surface with a vacant surface Cu site, namely the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface. This surface, and the Cu2O(1 1 0):CuO surface, are predicted to be the most stable copper (I) oxide surfaces under the temperature and pressure conditions appropriate to PCDD/F formation [10]. In addition, this surface contains a defect site which might affect the reactivity of the surface. One of our aims is to determine how the thermodynamics of the chemisorption of a 2-chlorophenol molecule might depend on the termination of the surface and the presence of a surface defect. 2. Computational methods Geometry optimization and total energy calculations have been carried out using the Vienna ab initio simulation package (VASP) [11,12]. The generalized gradient approximation (GGA) for exchange and correlation as developed by Perdew and Wang (PW91) [13] was used to perform the spin-polarized calculations. Projector augmented wave (PAW) potentials [12,14] are used to represent the ionic potentials. A (2 2) surface unit cell comprising four atomic layers has been employed in all calculations, together with a vacuum thickness of at least 10 Å to separate each slab from its neighbouring images along the z-direction (normal to the surface). The two top-most layers of our slab, in addition to the molecule, were allowed to fully relax. The three special k-points proposed for a hexagonal cell by Cunningham [15] were used for integrations over the irreducible symmetry element of the surface Brillouin zone (SBZ). The total energy was converged to an accuracy of 1.0 10 5 eV, and the forces on each ion to an accuracy of 0.01 eV Å 1. Any dipole effects along the z-direction Fig. 1. (a) Optimized geometry for an ideal Cu2O(1 1 1) surface and (b) optimized geometry for Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS. The dashed lines indicate the (1 1) surface unit cell. Values in brackets are from Soon et al. [10]. All dimensions are in Å. The copper (oxygen) atoms are indicated by the larger (smaller) spheres. Please cite this article in press as: M. Altarawneh, et al., Adsorption of 2-chlorophenol on Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS: A first-principles density functional study, Appl. Surf. Sci. (2010), doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.01.101 G Model APSUSC-19790; No. of Pages 7 M. Altarawneh et al. / Applied Surface Science xxx (2010) xxx–xxx 3 3. Results and discussion indicated, while in Fig. 1b, our optimized geometry for the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface is compared with the optimized geometry of Soon et al. [10]. As indicated in Fig. 1b, there are two distinct surface oxygen atoms for Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS which we distinguish as O1 and O2. Apart from the missing surface Cu atoms, the geometries of the two surfaces are quite similar, although the bond distances for the ideal Cu2O(1 1 1) surface are consistently longer than those for the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface with the defect. We also observe that the bondlengths obtained from our VASP calculations for the (1 1) Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface are in very good agreement with the values obtained previously by Soon et al. [10]. From the (1 1) surface unit cell shown in Fig. 1, we constructed a (2 2) supercell which we have used for all of our adsorption calculations (see Fig. 2). 3.1. The Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface 3.2. Non-dissociative structures The geometry of the ideal Cu2O(1 1 1) surface was first optimized using the (1 1) surface unit cell (see Fig. 1) and calculated lattice constant for bulk Cu2O [9]. The structure of the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS defect surface derived by Soon et al. [10] using the localized atomic orbital DMOL software package was also optimized using the same surface unit cell. The optimized geometries for both surfaces are shown in Fig. 1. In Fig. 1a, the optimized structure for the ideal Cu2O(1 1 1) surface is given, and the position of the vacant Cu site in the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface Several non-dissociative flat and vertical structures have been considered for the adsorption of a 2-chlorophenol molecule on the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface. The resulting optimized configurations are shown in Figs. 2 and 3, respectively, and the corresponding binding energies are reported in Table 1. From the calculated binding energies and bond distances shown in Figs. 2 and 3, it is clear that the 2-chlorophenol molecule is only very weakly bound to the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface. The very weakly bound nature of these structures is also evident from the fact that these structures have been compensated by introducing a dipole vector with the same value in the opposite direction. Binding energies have been calculated using the geometries optimized with a 350 eV energy cutoff. These binding energies were calculated as the difference between the total energy of the optimized chemisorbed structure, and the total energy of the non-interacting molecule and substrate in the same supercell. Convergence of our results with respect to the cut-off energy and slab thickness is analogous to our previous study on the Cu2O(1 1 0):CuO surface [9] where the binding energy was found to differ by only 6% when using a cut-off energy of 500 eV and the geometries were found not to change when using up to six layers. Fig. 2. Optimized structures for flat adsorption of a 2-chlorophenol molecule on the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface. The dashed lines indicate the (2 2) supercell. Reported distances are in Å. Only the first atomic layer is shown in the top views with the exception of O3 which is a second-layer atom. In this, and all subsequent figures, the carbon, chlorine and hydrogen atoms are coloured dark grey, mid grey (green) and light grey, respectively. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of the article.) Please cite this article in press as: M. Altarawneh, et al., Adsorption of 2-chlorophenol on Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS: A first-principles density functional study, Appl. Surf. Sci. (2010), doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.01.101 G Model APSUSC-19790; No. of Pages 7 M. Altarawneh et al. / Applied Surface Science xxx (2010) xxx–xxx 4 Fig. 3. Optimized structures for vertical adsorption of a 2-chlorophenol molecule on the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface. Reported distances are in Å. Only the first atomic layer is shown in the top views. exhibit a geometry very similar to that of an isolated 2chlorophenol molecule. The structure labelled ‘‘Vertical-4’’ in Fig. 3 is observed to be the most stable structure with a binding energy of 0.2 eV, most probably due to the existence of hydrogen Table 1 Binding energies for the flat and vertical structures of 2-chlorophenol on the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface. Structure Flat-1 Flat-2 Flat-3 Binding energy eV kcal/mol 0.12 0.10 0.11 2.77 2.30 2.54 Structure Binding energy eV kcal/mol Vertical-1 Vertical-2 Vertical-3 Vertical-4 0.07 0.06 0.07 0.20 1.61 1.38 1.61 4.61 bonding between the hydroxyl hydrogen and the O2 surface oxygen atom (see Fig. 3). The lack of any of the ring distortions that have been observed for other aromatics adsorbed on different metallic surfaces [16] also highlights the very weak nature of the interactions for 2-chlorophenol on the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface. The fundamental shortcomings of the DFT–GGA method in describing weakly bound structures suggest that the actual binding energies for our flat and vertical structures may differ from the values presented in Table 1 [7,17]. Recent work has, in fact, shown that van der Waals long-range interactions are necessary in order to adequately describe weakly adsorbed systems, and can lead to significantly improved values for the binding energies [17]. Such calculations are beyond the scope of this work. Nonetheless, we can confidently state that all of these non-dissociative structures, if stable, will only be weakly bound. Please cite this article in press as: M. Altarawneh, et al., Adsorption of 2-chlorophenol on Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS: A first-principles density functional study, Appl. Surf. Sci. (2010), doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.01.101 G Model APSUSC-19790; No. of Pages 7 M. Altarawneh et al. / Applied Surface Science xxx (2010) xxx–xxx 3.3. Dissociative structures 3.3.1. Rupture of the O–H bond Dissociation of the O–H bond of the chlorophenol molecule is a crucial step in the condensation of chlorophenols into PCDD/Fs, either in a purely gas-phase environment or via surface-catalyzed reactions. The importance of this dissociation comes from the fact that the activation energies for reaction steps involving the chlorophenoxy radical (the moiety resulting from the dissociation) are lower than for the steps involving the chlorophenol molecule. The O–H fission process is a central part of kinetic models addressing the formation of PCDD/Fs both homogeneously and heterogeneously. 5 On the clean copper surfaces, the formation of a 2-chlorophenoxy moiety is exoergic by 1.76 eV and 1.41 eV, respectively, relative to the clean Cu(1 0 0) and Cu(1 1 1) surfaces and a 2chlorophenol molecule in the gas phase. In contrast, this fission process was found to be endoergic by 0.36 eV on the Cu2O(1 1 0):CuO surface [9]. However, both the copper oxide surface and the Cu(1 0 0) surface are predicted to require similar total energies when the energy barriers involved in actually forming the 2chlorophenoxy moieties are taken into account. For the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface, we have considered three configurations that could result from the O–H fission process. These configurations are represented by the structures D1, D2 and D3 in Fig. 4 and their corresponding reaction energies are given in Fig. 4. Chemisorption of a 2-chlorophenoxy radical on the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface in the optimized structures D1, D2 and D3. Distances are in Å. Only the first atomic layer is shown in the top views with the exception of the O3 which is a second-layer atom. A representative reaction is given below each structure. Please cite this article in press as: M. Altarawneh, et al., Adsorption of 2-chlorophenol on Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS: A first-principles density functional study, Appl. Surf. Sci. (2010), doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.01.101 G Model APSUSC-19790; No. of Pages 7 M. Altarawneh et al. / Applied Surface Science xxx (2010) xxx–xxx 6 Table 2 Reaction energies for the formation of D1–D7 structures. A positive sign indicates that the reaction is endoergic. Structure D1 D2 D3 Reaction energy eV kcal/mol +0.42 +1.72 +0.52 +9.69 +39.66 +12.00 Structure D4 D5 D6 D7 Reaction energy eV kcal/mol +2.46 +1.54 0.03 +2.87 +35.52 +35.15 0.69 +66.21 Table 2. These structures are less stable than a vacuum 2chlorophenol molecule and the clean surface by 0.42 eV, 1.72 eV and 0.52 eV, respectively. In structure D1, the hydroxyl H is attached to a second-layer oxygen O3 atom. The distance between the phenolic oxygen (the oxygen atom in the 2-chlorophenol molecule) and the nearest surface copper atom is 2.02 Å and the C–O bond length in the adsorbed 2-chlorophenoxy moiety is 1.31 Å, 0.06 Å larger than the 1.25 Å equilibrium distance of a free 2chlorophenoxy radical. In structure D2, the hydroxyl H is attached to an O1 atom, while in structure D3 it is attached to an O2 atom. As the geometries of the adsorbed 2-chlorophenoxy moieties are very similar in structures D1, D2 and D3, we believe that the noticeable differences in their overall energies originate from the different positions of the hydroxyl H on the surface. To verify this hypothesis, we have calculated the binding energy for the adsorbed H and the 2-chlorophenoxy moiety for each of these three structures. The adsorbed H was found to be more stable than a vacuum H by 2.93 eV, 1.70 eV and 2.76 eV for the D1, D2 and D3 structures, respectively. This indicates that O1 is the least favoured position for the adsorbed hydroxyl H. By contrast, the adsorbed 2chlorophenoxy moiety was found to be more stable than a vacuum 2-chlorophenoxy radical by about 0.76 eV for all three structures. It Fig. 5. Structures D4–D7. In structures D5 and D6 only the chlorine atom has dissociated from the 2-chlorophenol molecule, while for structures D4 and D7 both the hydroxyl OH group and the chlorine atom have dissociated. Distances are in Å. Only the first atomic layer is shown in the top views, although the second-layer O3 oxygen atom has also been included for D4 and D5. A representative reaction is given below each structure. Please cite this article in press as: M. Altarawneh, et al., Adsorption of 2-chlorophenol on Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS: A first-principles density functional study, Appl. Surf. Sci. (2010), doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.01.101 G Model APSUSC-19790; No. of Pages 7 M. Altarawneh et al. / Applied Surface Science xxx (2010) xxx–xxx thus follows that the significant difference between the overall stability of structure D2, and structures D1 and D3, is directly attributable to the difference in the binding energy of their chemisorbed H. Combining the above results also leads us to conclude that the energy required to form a free chlorophenoxy radical via interaction of a 2-chlorophenol molecule with the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface varies from 1.18 eV (for D1) to 2.48 eV (for D2). The behavior of the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface in forming a 2chlorophenoxy moiety is similar to that of the Cu2O(1 1 0):CuO surface in terms of the calculated binding energies for hydroxyl H fission on the two surfaces. As we have seen, these D1–D3 reaction processes are endoergic. However, it is well known that such reactions can occur at sufficiently high temperatures. The gasphase formation of a 2-chlorophenoxy radical through the reaction of a chlorophenol molecule with the radical pool is negligible in the post-flame region (150–500 8C). The energy of 0.42–1.72 eV associated with forming a 2-chlorophenoxy moiety on these copper (I) oxide surfaces via the D1–D3 reaction processes is, however, sufficiently low to ensure that these surfaces would play an important role in the production of resonance stabilized 2chlorophenoxy radicals [18–20]. The importance of these surfaces in the catalytic formation of PCDD/Fs might also come from facilitating the condensation of two molecules and/or radicals into PCDD/Fs compounds (including possibly lowering the net activation energies with respect to the gas-phase process), but this warrants further investigation. 3.3.2. Formation of phenyl and benzyne moieties Single and double dehydrogenation of benzene to produce phenyl and benzyne moieties, respectively, have been investigated over a clean copper surface. The dehydrogenation process was found to be endoergic [21]. The formed phenyl and benzyne moieties can serve as direct precursors for the formation of polyaromatic compounds through the so-called ‘‘Ullmann reactions’’ [22]. As the chlorine–carbon bond is weaker than the hydrogen–carbon bond in the 2-chlorophenol molecule [20], we have also considered the possible dissociation of the chlorine atom and its subsequent adsorption on the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface. Two resultant structures labelled D5 and D6 are shown in Fig. 5. In structure D5, the dissociated chlorine atom forms an ionic bond with a surface copper atom with a bond distance of 2.21 Å. The unpaired carbon atom attaches to a second-layer oxygen atom and forms a semi-hydroquinone structure. The newly formed C–O bond length is 1.35 Å. The formation of structure D5 is associated with substantial deformation of the surface and the overall process is endoergic by 1.54 eV. In structure D6, the unpaired carbon atom created by the dissociation of the chlorine atom is attached to a surface oxygen atom via a distance of 1.41 Å. The formation of structure D6 is slightly exoergic by 0.03 eV. Finally, we have considered the formation of a benzyne moiety through the dissociation of both the hydroxyl group and the chlorine atom. Two possible structures, D4 and D7, are shown in Fig. 5. In structure D4, the two unpaired carbons that are created by the loss of the chlorine atom and the hydroxyl group are attached to a surface copper atom and a second-layer O3 oxygen atom. The formation of structure D4 is associated with a substantial endoergicity of 2.46 eV. In structure D7, the formed benzyne moiety stands upright at the bridge position connecting two C atoms with two identical copper– carbon distances of 1.97 Å. The formation of structure D7 is also highly endoergic by 2.87 eV. In both D4 and D7, the chlorine atom forms a single ionic bond with a surface copper atom. The formation energies calculated for structures D4–D7 are very similar to those for the analogous structures on the Cu2O(1 1 0):CuO surface, which is the other quite stable copper (I) oxide surface [9]. These results are interesting as our previous 7 work has shown that the formation of phenyl and benzyne moieties constitutes the most thermodynamically accessible pathways for the interaction of a 2-chlorophenol molecule with clean copper surfaces [6,7]. In view of the negligible importance of gas-phase decomposition pathways for the 2-chlorophenol molecule in the post-flame region (150–500 8C), these surface dissociative structures (D4–D7) provide feasible exit channels for the 2-chlorophenol molecule, despite the considerable endoergicity of structures D4, D5 and D7. 4. Conclusions In this paper, we have extended our DFT investigations of the interaction of 2-chlorophenol, a direct precursor for the formation of PCDD/Fs, with copper surfaces, to the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS defect surface. We have found that the overall behavior of the Cu2O(1 1 1)–CuCUS surface is very similar to that of Cu2O(1 1 0):CuO surface, both in terms of the very weak interaction of the molecular configurations, and the endoergic nature for the formation of dissociated structures. Of all of the dissociation structures, resulting from the cleavage of H, OH, Cl, or both OH and Cl, only one of the Cl-dissociated structures was found to be exothermic, and this was only marginally so. In order to fully account for the role of copper (I) oxide surfaces in catalyzing PCDD/ F formation, we thus believe that potential energy surfaces for the L–H and E–R mechanisms on these surfaces should be investigated, and the net activation energies compared with those of the purely gas-phase processes. 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