Experimental and computational studies on hydroxamic acids as environmental friendly chelating corrosion inhibitors for mild steel in aqueous acidic medium

Autor: Dakeshwar Kumar Verma, Ashish Asatkar, Fahmida Khan, Eno E. Ebenso, Chandrabhan Verma, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Akram Al Fantazi
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Molecular Liquids. 314:113651
ISSN: 0167-7322
Popis: In the present study, three hydroxamic acids (HAs) namely acetohydroxamic acid (AHA), benzohydroxamic acid (BHA) and oxalohydroxamic acid (OHA) were synthesized, characterized and used as inhibitors for mild steel corrosion in1 M HCl using chemical, electrochemical, surface and computational methods. Results of the studies show that the HAs act as effective corrosion inhibitors and their inhibition efficiencies follow the order: OHA (96.37%) > BHA (95.69%) > AHA (93.29%). EIS study showed that studied HAs act as interface type inhibitors. Polarization study revealed that HAs demonstrate mixed-type corrosion inhibitors characteristics and adsorb on the active sites of metallic surface. . Adsorption of HAs on metal-1 M HCl interfaces followed the Langmuir adsorption isotherm model. Surface morphological analyses of inhibited and uninhibited metallic surface were carried out using SEM-EDX and XRD methods. DFT analyses showed that studied compounds act as chelating type of ligands. Effect of Keto-enol tautomerism and different possible conformational isomers on metallic corrosion inhibition was demonstrated. The conformational isomers in which >C=O and –OH (hydroxyl) groups present in same side behave as chelating ligands and form relatively more stable complex than that of conformational isomers in which >C=O and –OH groups present in opposite side. Experimental and DFT studies complimented each other well.
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