Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2018-03-12T13:04:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JoeVitorAlvesDoNascimento_DISSERT.pdf: 3992212 bytes, checksum: 34f487a171eac36e59a2796d5e7dcf49 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-03-13T19:25:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 JoeVitorAlvesDoNascimento_DISSERT.pdf: 3992212 bytes, checksum: 34f487a171eac36e59a2796d5e7dcf49 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T19:25:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoeVitorAlvesDoNascimento_DISSERT.pdf: 3992212 bytes, checksum: 34f487a171eac36e59a2796d5e7dcf49 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-01-31 / Argilas s?o mat?rias naturais, terrosos e amplamente dispon?veis na natureza. T?m em sua composi??o os argilominerais e diversas impurezas. Essas impurezas podem interferir em suas aplica??es e o uso de argilomineral sint?tico surge como uma solu??o. A fim de estudar as diferen?as entre os materiais sint?ticos e naturais, o argilomineral montmorillonita foi sintetizado em condi??es hidrot?rmicas, press?o autog?nica, meio ?cido e fluor?drico. Tanto a argila sint?tica quanto argila natural foram caracterizados por meio de difra??o de raios X (DRX), an?lise termogravim?trica (TGA), espectroscopia na regi?o do infravermelho (FTIR), resson?ncia magn?tica nuclear de 27Al (27Al RMN), adsor??o e dessor??o de N2, microscopia eletr?nica de varredura (MEV) e energia dispersiva de raios X (EDS). A argila sint?tica apresentou um difratograma de raios X com reflex?es caracter?sticas da montmorillonita, tal como a argila natural, com exce??o da presen?a de quartzo na composi??o mineral?gica desta ?ltima. Por meio das an?lises realizadas, uma maior quantidade de alum?nio foi identificada para a argila sint?tica, assim como um car?ter mais meso-macroporoso e pureza composicional, ao comparar com a argila natural. A pilariza??o das argilas foi realizada partindo de duas fontes distintas de ?ons de Keggin (preparada em laborat?rio e solu??o de clorohidr?xido de alum?nio), uma comercial e outra produzida em laborat?rio. Os materiais resultantes foram caracterizados por DRX, TGA, FTIR, 27Al RMN e adsor??o e dessor??o de N2. Os materiais pilarizados sint?ticos apresentaram uma estrutura desorganizada, por?m pilarizada, tal como constatado por meio dos difratogramas de raios e an?lise textural. A argila natural pilarizou, tamb?m, com ambas as fontes, e apresentou caracter?sticas t?picas dos materiais pilarizados. O uso de clorohidr?xido de alum?nio (ACH) como fonte de ?ons de Keggin gerou materiais com maior quantidade de esp?cies de alum?nio no espa?o interlamelar, resultando em materiais com menor volume de microporos. As ?reas espec?ficas dos materiais naturais pilarizados foram superiores as calculadas para os an?logos oriundos da argila sint?tica, devido a uma maior contribui??o da microporosidade criada com o processo de pilariza??o. / Clays are natural, earthy and widely available in nature. They have in their composition the clay minerals and various impurities. These impurities can interfere in their applications and the use of synthetic clay appears as a solution. In order to study the differences between synthetic and natural materials, the montmorillonite claymineral was synthesized under hydrothermal conditions, autogenic pressure, acidic and hydrofluoric medium. Both synthetic and natural clays were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), 27Al nuclear magnetic resonance (27Al NMR), adsorption and desorption of N2, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive (EDS). The synthetic clay presented an X-ray diffraction pattern with characteristic reflections of montmorillonite, like natural clay, with the exception of the presence of quartz in the mineralogical composition of the latter. By means of the analyzes, a greater amount of aluminum was identified for the synthetic clay, as well as a more meso-macroporosity character and compositional purity, when compared with the natural clay. The pillarization of the clays was done starting from two distinct sources of Keggin ions (as made in laboratory and aluminum chlorohydrol solution), one commercial and the other produced in the laboratory. The resulting materials were characterized by XRD, TGA, FTIR, 27Al NMR and adsorption and desorption of N2. The synthetic pillared materials presented a disorganized, but pillared structure, as verified by means of X-ray diffraction and textural analysis. The natural clay also pillared with both sources presented characteristics typical of the pillared materials. The use of aluminum chlorohydrol (ACH) as a source of Keggin ions generated materials with higher amounts of aluminum species in the interlamellar space, resulting in materials with a lower volume of micropores. The specific areas of the natural pillared materials were higher than those calculated for synthetic pillared clays due to a greater contribution of the microporosity created with the pillarization process.

La tesi que porta per títol "Theoretical Study of the Basicity and the Redox Properties of Heteropolyanions" ofereix informació complementària a la comunitat científica relacionada amb la química de coordinació amb metalls de transició en general, i particularment a experts en òxids metàl·lics d'elevada nuclearitat, o polioxometal·lats (POMs). Els POMs poden encapsular selectivament espècies iòniques i catalitzar força reaccions orgàniques, també són agents blanquejadors de la polpa de fusta respectuosos amb el medi ambient, funcionen com a membranes, sensors, etc. En el futur, podrien ser aplicats amb èxit en medecina ja que estan sent testats com a agents antivirals. La llista de possibles aplicacions és interminable. Sigui com sigui, molts grups estan treballant per explotar les propietats d'aquests òxids metàl·lics. Per tant, un coneixement acurat de les propietats fonamentals dels POMs és necessari si els experimentalistes volen desenvolupar noves tecnologies.La pràctica totalitat dels resultats presentats en la memòria han estat obtinguts amb mètodes de càlcul mecano-quàntics d'alt nivell. La tècnica més àmpliament utilitzada ha estat el mètode relacionat amb la teoria del funcional de la densitat. Aquesta eina, d'ús rutinari des de fa uns pocs anys, s'ha convertit en la preferida per al càlcul de sistemes de gran mida com els POMs. Els principals temes abordats en aquest treball estan relacionats amb l'estructura electrònica d'alguns heteropolianions (HPAs). Aquests es caracteritzen per posseir dos tipus estructurals d'àtoms a part dels lligands oxo: el(s) central(s) i els perifèrics. Dintre d'aquest subgrup dels POMs, s'han investigat les propietats de les dues estructures més comuns: l'anió de Keggin (XM12O40n) i el de WellsDawson (X2M18O62m), així com alguns derivats. Han estat estudiades sèries amb diferents metalls perifèrics (anomenats addenda), metalls centrals (heteroàtoms), isòmers i estructures, de manera que s'han traçat conclusions valuoses i extrapolables a altres sistemes no estudiats. Aquesta classe de POMs presenta una seqüència d'orbitals moleculars peculiar. Els seus orbitals frontera han estat analitzats detalladament per un grup ampli de compostos. S'ha posat especial èmfasi en conèixer la relació entre els orbitals metàl·lics (normalment buits) i les propietats redox dels HPAs. Un dels èxits del treball ha estat explicar de forma inequívoca i general les tendències en els potencials de reducció segons la composició química d'una espècie, així com el comportament dels electrons metàl·lics―(des)localització. Val a dir que, en la gran majoria dels casos, s'ha trobat una concordància molt bona amb les dades experimentals.El segon gran tema abordat en la tesi és la basicitat dels HPAs. En un compost tipus XxMmOyn existeixen diverses posicions oxo, les quals no sempre són equivalents químicament. La seva basicitat pot ésser, doncs, diferent. Un estudi realitzat sobre una sèrie de compostos amb metalls mesclats ha donat escales relatives de basicitat, estimades a partir de la funció potencial electrostàtic, així com a partir d'energies de protonació. S'ha mostrat que els lligands oxo bicoordinats a metalls solen ser els més bàsics, mentre que els oxígens terminals són, generalment, els menys bàsics. Els processos de dimerització en anions de Keggin solen tenir lloc en medi àcid. Aquests passen per una protonació dels monòmers i s´han abordat en dos casos. L'objectiu era mostrar possibles mecanismes de reacció del procés.El tractament teòric dels POMs és encara en la seva etapa inicial, probablement per les dificultats intrínseques associades al càlcul d'aquestes espècies. Aquestes són, des del punt de vista computacional, molècules grans. A més, degut a que són òxids de metalls de transició, acostumen a ser anions altament carregats amb, de vegades, estats electrònics de capa oberta. Els resultats recopilats en la tesi són una prova de que el DFT ha estat hàbilment aplicat a l'estudi dels POMs. / The thesis titled "Theoretical Study of the Basicity and the Redox Properties of Heteropolyanions" offers complementary information to the scientific community concerned to coordination chemistry with transition metals in general, and particularly to experts in high-nuclearity metal oxide compounds. They are the so-called polyoxometalates (POMs). POM species can encapsulate selectively some ionic species as well as catalyse many organic reactions. They are also environmentally-friendly wood pulp bleaching agents, they work as membranes, sensors, etc. In the close future, they could be successfully applied to medicine since they were tested as antiviral agents. The full list of possible applications is endless. Be that as it may, many groups are working with the aim of exploiting the properties of these metal oxides. Thus, an accurate knowledge of their fundamental properties is necessary if experimentalists are to develop new POM-related technologies.The great majority of the results presented in the thesis were obtained by means of high-performance quantum-mechanics computational methods. The most amply utilised tool in this study was the method derived from the density function theory. This tool, only recently utilised routinely, has arisen as the preferred one for computing molecular systems of large size as POMs are. The main topics studied in this work are related to the electronic structure of some heteropolyanions (HPAs). They are characterised by possessing two structural types of atoms, a part from oxo ligands: the central and the peripheral atoms. Within this subset of POMs, the two most common structures were studied: the Keggin (XM12O40n) and the WellsDawson (X2M18O62m) anions, and some of their derivatives, as well. Large series of compounds with varying peripheral atoms (also known as addenda), central metals (heteroatoms), isomers and frameworks, so that we traced valuable conclusions, extrapolable to other systems not studied here. This class of POMs features a particular molecular orbitals sequence. Their frontier orbitals were carefully analysed for a wide set of compounds. We especially stressed the connection between the metal orbitals (normally empty) and the redox properties of HPAs. One of the successes of the work was to explain unequivocally and in a general way the trends in the reduction potentials depending on the chemical composition of a given species, as well as the behaviour of metal electrons―(de)localisation. It is worth noting that, in virtually all cases, we found a fair accordance of our results with experimental data.The second great topic studied in the thesis is the basicity of HPAs. In a compound like XxMmOyn there exist different oxo positions which are not always chemically equivalent. Their basicity might be, then, different. The study carried out for a series of mixed-addenda molecules gives relative basicity scales, estimated from the electrostatic potential function and from protonation energies. It has been showed that the oxo ligands coordinated to two metals are more basic than terminal position, which in general are the least basic. The dimerisation processes in Keggin anions take place, normally, in acidic media. They occur after protonation of the monomers and were investigated for two cases. The goal was to show possible reaction mechanisms for the process.The theoretical treatment of POMs is still in its initial steps, probably due to the intrinsic difficulties associated to the calculation of such species. They are, from a computational point of view, large molecules. In addition, because they are transition-metal oxides, they are highly charged anions that, sometimes, display open-shell electronic states. The compilation of results of the thesis is a proof that the DFT have been skilfully applpied to the study of POMs.

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L’objectif de ce travail de thèse était la préparation et la caractérisation des hétéropolyanions anhydres sur supports oxydes par la stratégie de chimie organométallique de surface. Les acides anhydres H3PMo12O40 et H3PW12O40 ont été préparés sur silice partiellement déshydroxylée. Cette réaction conduit à une interaction ionique par protonation des silanols de surface. La réactivité de ces hétéropolyacides anhydres en présence d’alkylsilanes a été étudiée en milieu homogène et a conduit à la formation d’espèces silylées cationiques [Et2MeSi+]3[HPA3-] et au dégagement d’hydrogène. Cette réactivité a ensuite été appliquée en milieu hétérogène en fonctionnalisant la surface de la silice par des groupements [(≡SiO)SiMe2H] et a conduit à la formation d’une espèce de surface polyoxometalate liée de manière covalente au support. L’introduction de fonction chloroalkylsilane à la surface de la silice [(≡SiO)SiMeCl2] et [(≡SiO)2SiMeCl] a également permis de former des liaisons covalentes Si Support-O-M HPA. Par ailleurs, Par ailleurs, l’activation du méthane a été observée sur tous les solides HPA/SiO2 à travers le dégagement de CO2, H2O, H2. L’activation C-H a lieu sur ces systèmes même à basse température et les données obtenues suggèrent la formation d’une espèce méthoxy de surface par réaction des protons acides avec le méthane / The aim of this work was the preparation and characterization of anhydrous heteropolyanions on oxide supports using surface organometallic chemistry approach. Anhydrous H3PMo12O40 and H3PW12O40 were prepared on partially dehydroxylated silica. This reaction led to an ionic interaction by protonation of surface silanols. The reactivity of these heteropoly compounds with alkylsilanes was studied in homogeneous conditions and led to the formation of cationic silicon species [Et2MeSi+]3[HPA3-] and release of hydrogen. This reactivity was then applied in heterogeneous conditions by introduction of silane groups [(≡SiO)SiMe2H] at the silica surface and led to the formation of a surface polyoxometalate species covalently bonded to the support. The introduction of chloroalkylsilane groups [(≡SiO)SiMeCl2] and [(≡SiO)2SiMeCl] has also enabled the formation of covalent bonds Si Support-O-M HPA. In addition, methane activation was observed on all HPA/SiO2 solids through the releases of CO2, H2O, H2. The C-H activation takes place on these systems even at low temperature and obtained data suggest the formation of a methoxy surface species by reaction of stronf acidic protons with methane