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Abstract
A comparative quantum chemical study of CO2 adsorption on MgO and CaO has been carried out. Theoretical infrared (IR) frequencies are calculated and compared with IR experiments from the literature. The results show that CO2 adsorbs as monodentate on edge sites and bidentate on corner sites on MgO. The former assignment contradicts the common assumption of adsorption of CO2 in a bidentate configuration. On CaO, CO2 adsorbs as monodentate on both edge and corner sites, which is a reinterpretation of earlier experimental work. On terrace (100) sites, none of the adsorption modes on MgO or CaO possess calculated frequencies in agreement with the experimental IR spectra. These experimental bands were tentatively assigned to some slightly perturbed double negatively charged carbonate ions at the surface, rather than the monodentate structure suggested in the literature.
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