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In this work, a tetrafunctional epoxy resin entitled 2,3,4,5-tetraglycidyloxy pentanal (TGP) was tested and investigated as a potential corrosion inhibitor for mild steel (MS) in 0.5 M H2SO4 solution. The corrosion inhibition process for mild steel was employed alongside various techniques, such as potentiodynamic polarization (PDP), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), temperature effect (TE), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and theoretical approaches (DFT, MC, RDF and MD). Further, the corrosion efficacies obtained at the optimum concentration (10−3 M of the TGP) were 85.5% (EIS) and 88.6% (PDP), respectively. The PDP results indicated that the TGP tetrafunctional epoxy resin acted the same as an anodic inhibitor type in 0.5 M H2SO4 solution. SEM and EDS analyses found that the protective layer formed on the MS electrode surface in the presence of TGP could prevent the attack of the sulfur ions. The DFT calculation provided more information regarding the reactivity, geometric properties and the active centers of the corrosion inhibitory efficiency of the tested epoxy resin. RDF, MC and MD simulations showed that the investigated inhibitory resin have a maximum inhibition efficiency in 0.5 M H2SO4 solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, a tetrafunctional epoxy resin entitled 2,3,4,5-tetraglycidyloxy pentanal (TGP) was tested and investigated as a potential corrosion inhibitor for mild steel (MS) in 0.5 M H2SO4 solution. The corrosion inhibition process for mild steel was employed alongside various techniques, such as potentiodynamic polarization (PDP), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), temperature effect (TE), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and theoretical approaches (DFT, MC, RDF and MD). Further, the corrosion efficacies obtained at the optimum concentration (10−3 M of the TGP) were 85.5% (EIS) and 88.6% (PDP), respectively. The PDP results indicated that the TGP tetrafunctional epoxy resin acted the same as an anodic inhibitor type in 0.5 M H2SO4 solution. SEM and EDS analyses found that the protective layer formed on the MS electrode surface in the presence of TGP could prevent the attack of the sulfur ions. The DFT calculation provided more information regarding the reactivity, geometric properties and the active centers of the corrosion inhibitory efficiency of the tested epoxy resin. RDF, MC and MD simulations showed that the investigated inhibitory resin have a maximum inhibition efficiency in 0.5 M H2SO4 solution.

Two new structurally related pyridazine derivatives, Ortho (PO) and Para (PP), were synthesized by greener chemical pathway, and were spectroscopically specified by 1H NMR and 13C NMR. Their application in corrosion inhibition of mild steel (MS) in 1.0 M HCl was explored by experimental electrochemical tests of Potentiodynamic Polarization (PDP), Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), with a surface and corrosive solution analyses by means of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X˗ray (EDX) analysis, and UV˗vis spectroscopy, as well as by Density functional theory (DFT) calculations for corroboration and development of an interpretation of the experimentally obtained anticorrosive activity by referring to the particular effects of molecular structure. Electrochemical experiments tests provided that the two compounds act by physisorption and chemisorption adsorption modes, with a maximum efficiency of 94.4% and 95.4% for PO and PP, respectively at 10˗3 mol L˗1, and obey of Langmuir's theory of monolayer adsorption. SEM/EDX and UV˗vis analysis confirmed this state of adsorption by an inhibitor film. DFT quantum chemical descriptors and molecular dynamics simulations showed a reasonable correlation with experimentally corrosion inhibition performance. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]