A Mechanistic Study of the Brønsted-Acid Catalysis of<i>n-</i>Hexane → Propane + Propene, Featuring Carbonium Ions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A hypothetical five-step catalytic cycle for Brønsted-mediated fission of an all-trans n- alkane was examined using density functional theory. Optimized geometries and transition states were determined for catalyst−reactant complexes, using three different monodentate catalyst ions (NH 4 +, H 3 O +, and H 2 F + ). Despite the wide variety of catalyst acidities, protonated hexane appears as an intermediate (not a transition state) in each case. The protonated cyclopropane structure is the most likely initial form of the dissociated product ion. The predicted intermediates were seen to vary with catalyst acidity. The complete energy profiles of this model catalytic cycle are provided and fitted to a cosine expansion, which allows for generation of the energy profile for any Brønsted catalyst and any n- alkane only on the basis of the proton affinities of the n- alkane and the conjugate base of the catalyst. Remarks on the applicability to zeolites and ionic liquid catalysts are given.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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