Understanding the chemistry of BNNT is a crucial step toward their ultimate prac- tical use. A comparative study of Reactions A (ASWCNT (5,5) and CCl2) and B (ASWBNNT (5,5) and CCl2) have been performed by using ONIOM (B3LYP/6-31G: AM1) method in Gaussian03 program package. The results show that (1) the two reactions are both exothermic; (2) the mechanism of Reaction B is a two-step mechanism; (3) the difference in energy barriers suggests that the reaction of CCl2 with BNNT is easier than with CNT; (4) in reaction B, CCl2 prefers to attack the boron atom of BNNT first.
Adsorption of cyclohexene and its dehydrogenation intermediates on the nAu/Pt(100) (n = 0, 1, 2 means clean Pt, one monolayer and two layers of Au covered Pt surfaces, respectively.) has been investigated by self-consistent (GGA-PW91) density functional theory combined with periodic slab model. It is found that on the clean platinum, there are two kinds of favorable adsorption sites, i.e., hollow sites and bridge sites, and the adsorption energy at the hollow site is larger than that at the bridge site. However, on the Au/Pt and 2Au/Pt surfaces, there are three kinds of adsorption sites, and the adsorption energies are alike at both the bridge site and the top site. The magnitude order of the adsorption energies is as follows: clean Pt > Au/Pt > 2Au/Pt. The configurations of cyclohexene molecule have been distorted a little during the geometry optimizations. The lengths of C–M (M = Pt or Au, on the top layer of the slab) bonds are closely related to the corresponding adsorption energies.
