Molecular Dynamics and Surface Interactions of Nickelocene Adsorbed on Silica: A Paramagnetic Solid-State NMR Study
Molecular Dynamics and Surface Interactions of Nickelocene Adsorbed on Silica: A Paramagnetic Solid-State NMR Study
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二氧化硅上吸附的茂镍的分子动力学和表面相互作用:顺磁固态核磁共振研究
DOI:
10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00301
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发表时间:
2022
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3.9
通讯作者:
Blümel, Janet
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作者:
Benzie, Jordon W.;Harmon-Welch, Gabrielle E.;Hoefler, John C.;Bakhmutov, Vladimir I.;Blümel, Janet
When grinding nickelocene with silica in the absence of a solvent at room temperature, it adsorbs on the surface within the pores. This has also been demonstrated visually by adsorbing green nickelocene in the pores of a large colorless silica gel specimen. While this dry adsorption and translational mobility of nickelocene within the pores is proven visually, the site-to-site mobility of the nickelocene molecules and their orientation toward the surface are not yet understood. In this contribution, mesoporous silica is used as the support material for a systematic solid-state NMR study of these issues. Paramagnetic1H VT solid-state NMR andT1relaxation times have been powerful tools for studying the dynamics of nickelocene on the silica surface. Herewith, the mobility of the surface-adsorbed nickelocene molecules in the pores could be quantified on the molecular scale. According to the obtained data, the nickelocene molecules move like a liquid on the surface. Isotropically moving molecules exchange places rapidly with surface-attached molecular states of nickelocene in a sample with submonolayer surface coverage. This finding is corroborated by a macroscopic visualization experiment. The states of the surface-attached horizontally oriented nickelocene molecules that are prevalent at temperatures below 200 K have been quantified. The temperature dependencies of the ratekin coordinates of ln(k) versus 1/Tand ln(k/T) versus 1/Tform ideal straight lines that allow the determination of the kinetic parametersEact= 5.5 kcal/mol,A= 1.1 × 1010, ΔH‡= 5.0 kcal/mol, and ΔS‡= −15 eu. Investigating a sample with equal amounts of nickelocene and ferrocene in a submonolayer amount of 80% overall surface coverage shows that the different metallocenes mix on the molecular level on the silica surface.