Research Article

Correlation between the Photocatalytic Degradability of PAHs over Pt/TiO2-SiO2 in Water and Their Quantitative Molecular Structure

Table 3

Summary of , , and GAP for NP, FL, PHE, PYR, BaP, and DahA.

NPFLPHEPYRBaPDahA

HOMO (eV)−8.7099−8.7109−8.6171−8.0692−7.9173−8.2570
LUMO (eV)−0.2650−0.2088−0.4085−0.9225−1.1142−0.8041
GAP (eV)8.44498.50218.20867.14676.80317.4529
Degradation accelerated by Pt/TiO2-SiO2NoNoNoYesYesYes