Abstract
Molecule immobilization in hydrothermally synthesized titania nanotubes is investigated by 13C solid-state NMR aided density functional theory calculations. The changes of 13C NMR spectra before and after immobilization indicate that phenols are chemisorbed and that aliphatic acid is possibly physisorbed in titania nanotubes. Hydroquinone exhibits monodentate bonds, and catechol exhibits bidentate bonds to accessible surface Ti sites in titania nanotubes. Immobilization of anthrarobin confirms that bidentate bonding is favored over monodentate bonding. Density functional calculations at the B3LYP/6-311+G(2d,p) level suggest that catechol is immobilized dissociatively via bridge bidentate bonding to neighboring surface Ti sites rather than chelate bidentate bonding to single surface Ti sites.
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