论文成果
Theoretical studies on the structure and property of alkylated dipenylamine antioxidants
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- 论文类型:期刊论文
- 发表时间:2014-08-01
- 发表刊物:JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL & COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
- 收录刊物:SCIE、Scopus
- 文献类型:J
- 卷号:13
- 期号:5
- ISSN号:0219-6336
- 关键字:Antioxidant; diarylamine; DFT; bond dissociation enthalpy; one-electron
oxidation potential; reaction rate constant
- 摘要:Diarylamines (Ar2NH) are generally used as antioxidants to inhibit or retard the auto-oxidation degradation of lubricating oil by trapping ROO center dot radicals. In the present study, 20 kinds of 4,4'-disubstituted diphenylamine compounds were investigated through density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The results indicate that the N-H bond dissociation enthalpy (BDE) linearly correlates its one-electron oxidation potential, the difference in Mulliken atomic charge on the two atoms of N-H bond, the reaction rate constant of hydrogen transfer from Ar2NH to peroxy radical, and the chemical hardness of the resulted Ar2N center dot radical, respectively. The substitution of alkyl groups (electron-donating groups) decreases the N-H BDE, one-electron oxidation potential and the reaction rate constant, while that of significant electron-withdrawing groups such as -NO2 and -COOCH3 increases these three parameters. The electron-donating groups such as alkyls could improve the antioxidation performance of 4,4'-disubstitued diphenylamines whereas electron-withdrawing groups have the contrary effect. In addition, the frontier molecular orbital of Ar2NH has been also analyzed.