Investigation of the effect of N-substituents on performance of thionocarbamates as selective collectors for copper sulfides by ab initio calculations

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 12-14, 2008, Pages 1050-1054

  Liu, Guangyi ^a   Zhong, Hong ^a   Dai, Tagen ^a   Xia, Liuyin ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flotation collectors; Modelling; Non ferrous metallic ores; Sulfide ores

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; CHEMICAL BONDS; FLOTATION; GARNETS; MINERALS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFATE MINERALS; SULFIDE MINERALS;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; AB-INITIO METHODS; ATOMIC CHARGES; COPPER ATOMS; COPPER SULFIDE; COPPER SULFIDES; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; ELECTRON-DONATING ABILITY; FLOTATION COLLECTORS; FLOTATION PERFORMANCE; FRONTIER MOLECULAR ORBITALS; ISOBUTYL; MODELLING; NON-FERROUS METALLIC ORES; REACTIVE BEHAVIORS; SULFIDE ORES; THIONOCARBAMATES;

COPPER;

EID: 52949103682     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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