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Layered double hydroxide intercalated with p-methylbenzoate and p-bromobenzoate: molecular simulations and XRD
Petr Kovár1, Klára Melánová, Vítezslav Zima
1Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague, Ke Karlovu 3, 12116 Prague 2, Czech Republic. kovar@karlov.mff.cuni.cz
Abstract:
Samples of Mg4Al2 layered double hydroxide (LDH) intercalated with p-methylbenzoate and p-bromobenzoate anions were prepared by reconstruction of calcined LDH. The interlayer arrangement of guests was investigated by molecular modeling combined with X-ray powder diffraction and thermogravimetry. Molecular modeling was carried out in a Cerius2 modeling environment. In both structures the guest anions adopt a nearly perpendicular arrangement of their long axis with respect to the host layers and they are anchored to the OH groups of the layers through COO* groups via electrostatic interactions. Molecular modeling revealed that both structures of the intercalates exhibit a certain disorder of guest anions in the interlayer space. In the case of LDH-p-methylbenzoate intercalate the anions tend to be situated in disordered rows, and the LDH-p-bromobenzoate intercalate exhibits a total disorientation of guest anions. A good agreement between calculated and measured X-ray diffraction patterns and between experimental and calculated basal spacings was obtained. In the LDH-p-methylbenzoate intercalate d exp=16.96 A and d calc=16.97 A, and in the case of LDH-p-bromobenzoate intercalate d exp=17.19 A and d calc=17.40 A.
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