Physico-chemical features of aluminum hydroxides as modeled with 2 the hybrid B3LYP functional and localized basis functions

Aluminum hydroxides (a family of seven compounds) are key raw materials in the aluminum industry, and indeed an extremely large variety of experiments and simulations was performed in the last 50 years on this class of materials. However, many of their properties still remain a matter of debate, as...

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Main Authors: Demichelis, Raffaella, Noel, Y., Ugliengo, P., Zicovich-Wilson, C., Dovesi, R.
Format: Journal Article
Published: American Chemical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11875
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author Demichelis, Raffaella
Noel, Y.
Ugliengo, P.
Zicovich-Wilson, C.
Dovesi, R.
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Noel, Y.
Ugliengo, P.
Zicovich-Wilson, C.
Dovesi, R.
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description Aluminum hydroxides (a family of seven compounds) are key raw materials in the aluminum industry, and indeed an extremely large variety of experiments and simulations was performed in the last 50 years on this class of materials. However, many of their properties still remain a matter of debate, as a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the full family is still lacking. Some of the open questions related to their structure (space group definition, H order-disorder), energetics (relative stability with respect to each other and to the dehydrated phase), and vibrational spectrum (broad bands in the OH stretching region causing large differences in the interpretation of the experimental IR and Raman spectra by the various authors) are addressed in this work with a quantum mechanical ab initio approach, using the CRYSTAL09 periodic code, a rich all-electron Gaussian type basis set, and the hybrid B3LYP functional. This review presents the first complete, systematic, and homogeneous (same method, computational parameters, basis set, and Hamiltonian) investigation of the crystal structure, energetics, and vibrational spectra of this family of compounds, showing that quantum mechanical simulation is likely to provide complementary data for their complete characterization
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-118752017-09-13T14:55:43Z Physico-chemical features of aluminum hydroxides as modeled with 2 the hybrid B3LYP functional and localized basis functions Demichelis, Raffaella Noel, Y. Ugliengo, P. Zicovich-Wilson, C. Dovesi, R. Aluminum hydroxides (a family of seven compounds) are key raw materials in the aluminum industry, and indeed an extremely large variety of experiments and simulations was performed in the last 50 years on this class of materials. However, many of their properties still remain a matter of debate, as a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the full family is still lacking. Some of the open questions related to their structure (space group definition, H order-disorder), energetics (relative stability with respect to each other and to the dehydrated phase), and vibrational spectrum (broad bands in the OH stretching region causing large differences in the interpretation of the experimental IR and Raman spectra by the various authors) are addressed in this work with a quantum mechanical ab initio approach, using the CRYSTAL09 periodic code, a rich all-electron Gaussian type basis set, and the hybrid B3LYP functional. This review presents the first complete, systematic, and homogeneous (same method, computational parameters, basis set, and Hamiltonian) investigation of the crystal structure, energetics, and vibrational spectra of this family of compounds, showing that quantum mechanical simulation is likely to provide complementary data for their complete characterization 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11875 10.1021/jp200523x American Chemical Society restricted
spellingShingle Demichelis, Raffaella
Noel, Y.
Ugliengo, P.
Zicovich-Wilson, C.
Dovesi, R.
Physico-chemical features of aluminum hydroxides as modeled with 2 the hybrid B3LYP functional and localized basis functions
title Physico-chemical features of aluminum hydroxides as modeled with 2 the hybrid B3LYP functional and localized basis functions
title_full Physico-chemical features of aluminum hydroxides as modeled with 2 the hybrid B3LYP functional and localized basis functions
title_fullStr Physico-chemical features of aluminum hydroxides as modeled with 2 the hybrid B3LYP functional and localized basis functions
title_full_unstemmed Physico-chemical features of aluminum hydroxides as modeled with 2 the hybrid B3LYP functional and localized basis functions
title_short Physico-chemical features of aluminum hydroxides as modeled with 2 the hybrid B3LYP functional and localized basis functions
title_sort physico-chemical features of aluminum hydroxides as modeled with 2 the hybrid b3lyp functional and localized basis functions
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11875