Reaction mechanism of the ethynylation of formaldehyde on copper terminated Cu2O(100) surfaces: a DFT study
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1,4-Butanediol (BDO) is an important chemical raw material for a series of high-value-added products. And the ethynylation of formaldehyde is the key step for the production of BDO by the Reppe process. However, little work has been done to reveal the reaction mechanism. In this work, the reaction mechanism for the ethynylation of formaldehyde process on copper-terminated Cu2O(100) surfaces was investigated with density functional theory (DFT). The reaction network of the ethynylation of formaldehyde was constructed first and the adsorption properties of the related species were calculated. Then the energy barrier and reaction energy of the related reactions and the geometric configuration were calculated. It is a consecutive reaction including two processes. For the propargyl alcohol (PA) formation process, the most favorable pathway is the direct addition of acetylene to formaldehyde followed by a hydrogen transfer reaction. And the rate control step is the hydrogen transfer reaction with an energy barrier of 1.43 eV. For the 1,4-butynediol (BYD) formation process, the most competitive pathway is the addition of PA to CH2OH, including formaldehyde hydrogenation to form CH2OH, coupling addition, and dehydrogenation reaction. The rate control step of this pathway is the dehydrogenation reaction with an energy barrier of 1.51 eV.
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