Abstract:Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were conducted to investigate mechanistic details of ethanol-to-butadiene conversion reaction over MgO or ZnO catalyst. We evaluated the Lewis acidity and basicity of MgO and ZnO and found that ZnO had the stronger Lewis acidity and basicity compared with those of MgO. Potential energy surfaces (PESs) of ethanol-to-butadiene conversion, which included relevant transition states (TSs) and intermediates, were computed in detail following the generally accepted mechani… Show more
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