The computer molecular simulation technique was applied to study the chemisorption of thiophene and tetramethylthiophene as the model sulfides on the simple oxides and complex oxides of some transition metals as the catalytic materials. The study disclosed that the thiophene sulfides could enter into chemisorption with metal oxides such as VO, ZnO, NiO and Zn-Al-spinel. This interaction could lead to thiophene molecular structure deformation to be in an activated adsorption state, which could help to promote the conversion of thiophene sulfides in the course of catalytic cracking. The VO with a valence of 2 could provide relatively strong selective adsorption sites for the conversion of thiophene sulfides to apparently transform the molecular structures and electron cloud states of such heterocyclic sulfur compounds such as thiophene and tetramethylthiophene into an activated adsorption state. The effect of this interaction was more pronounced with respect to tetramethylthiophene.
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