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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 113, Issue 49, Pages 13790-13796Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp905244w
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- EPSRC [EP/E01724X-1]
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AlCl3 is added in small quantities to TiCl4 fed to industrial reactors during the combustion synthesis of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in order to promote the rutile crystal phase. Despite the importance of this process, a detailed mechanism including AlCl3 is Still not available. This work presents the thermochemistry of many of the intermediates ill the early stages of the mechanism, computed using quantum chemistry. The enthalpies of formation and thermochemical data for AlCl, AlO, AlOCl, AlOCl2, AlO2, AlO2Cl, AlOCl3, AlO2Cl2, AlO3ClTi, AlO2Cl2Ti, AlO2Cl2Ti, AlOCl5Ti, AlO(2)Cl(3)Tia (isomer-a), AlO3Cl2Ti, AlO2Cl5Ti, AlOCl4Ti, AlO(2)Cl(3)Tib (isomer-b), AlCl7Ti, AlCl6Ti, Al2Cl6, Al2O2Cl, Al2O2Cl3, Al2O3Cl2, Al2O2Cl2, Al2OCl4, Al2O3, and Al2OCl3 were calculated using density functional theory (DFT). A full comparison between a number of methods is made for one of the important species, AlOCl, to validate the use of DFT and gauge the magnitude of errors involved with this method. Finally, equilibrium calculations are performed to try to identify which intermediates are likely to be most prevalent in the high temperature industrial process and as a first attempt to characterize the nucleation process.
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