The mechanisms of isobutene hydration yielding tert-butanol catalyzed by a strong mineral acid (H2SO4) and Lewis-Brønsted superacid (HF/SbF5)

The mechanism of the (CH3)2CCH2+H2O→(CH3)3COH reaction catalyzed by two strong acids (H2SO4 and HSbF6) was investigated theoretically using the ab initio MP2 and CCSD(T) methods and the aug-cc-pVDZ/LANL2DZ and aug-cc-pVTZ/LANL2DZ basis sets. The effects of surrounding solvent molecules were approxim...

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Main Authors: Jakub Brzeski, Piotr Skurski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-07-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844019357937