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Activation of CO2 by Gadolinium Cation (Gd+): Energetics and Mechanism from Experiment and Theory

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The exothermic and barrierless activation of CO2 by the lanthanide gadolinium cation (Gd+) to form GdO+ and CO is investigated in detail using guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometry (GIBMS) and theory. Kinetic energy dependent product ion cross sections from collision-induced dissociation (CID) experiments of GdCO2 + are measured to determine the energetics of OGd+(CO) and Gd+(OCO) intermediates. Modeling these cross sections yields bond dissociation energies (BDEs) for OGd+–CO and Gd+–OCO of 0.57 ± 0.05 and 0.38 ± 0.05 eV, respectively. The OGd+–CO BDE is similar to that previously measured for Gd+–CO, which can be attributed to the comparable electrostatic interaction with CO in both complexes. The Gd+(OCO) adduct is identified from calculations to correspond to an electronically excited state. The thermochemistry here and the recently measured GdO+ BDE allows for the potential energy surface (PES) of the Gd+ reaction with CO2 to be deduced from experiment in some detail. Theoretical calculations are performed for comparison with the experimental thermochemistry and for insight into the electronic states of the GdCO2 + intermediates, transition states, and the reaction mechanism. Although the reaction between ground state Gd+ (10D) and CO2 (1Σg +) reactants to form ground state GdO+ (8Σ−) and CO (1Σ+) products is formally spin-forbidden, calculations indicate that there are octet and dectet surfaces having a small energy gap in the entrance channel, such that they can readily mix. Thereby, the reaction can efficiently proceed along the lowest energy octet surface to yield ground state products, consistent with the experimental observations of an efficient, barrierless process. At high collision energies, the measured GdO+ cross section from the Gd+ reaction with CO2 exhibits a distinct feature, attributed to formation of electronically excited GdO+ products along a single dectet PES in a diabatic and spin-allowed process. Modeling this high-energy feature gives an excitation energy of 3.25 ± 0.16 eV relative to the GdO+ (8Σ−) ground state, in good agreement with calculated excitation energies for GdO+ (10Π, 10Σ−) electronic states. The reactivity of Gd+ with CO2 is compared with the group 3 transition metal cations and other lanthanide cations and periodic trends are discussed.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-16-1-0095) for financial support, Professor Kirk A. Peterson for providing the all-electron basis sets, and the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah for generous allocation of computer time. Additionally, some of the more computationally demanding calculations were performed on the large shared-memory cluster at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University via the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), under grant number TG-CHE170012. Christopher McNary is thanked for help with using these resources.

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Demireva, M., Armentrout, P.B. Activation of CO2 by Gadolinium Cation (Gd+): Energetics and Mechanism from Experiment and Theory. Top Catal 61, 3–19 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-017-0858-1

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