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Czakó G, Gruber B, Papp D, Tajti V, Tasi DA, Yin C. First-principles mode-specific reaction dynamics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:15818-15830. [PMID: 38639072 DOI: 10.1039/d4cp00417e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
Abstract
Controlling the outcome of chemical reactions by exciting specific vibrational and/or rotational modes of the reactants is one of the major goals of modern reaction dynamics studies. In the present Perspective, we focus on first-principles vibrational and rotational mode-specific dynamics computations on reactions of neutral and anionic systems beyond six atoms such as X + C2H6 [X = F, Cl, OH], HX + C2H5 [X = Br, I], OH- + CH3I, and F- + CH3CH2Cl. The dynamics simulations utilize high-level ab initio analytical potential energy surfaces and the quasi-classical trajectory method. Besides initial state specificity and the validity of the Polanyi rules, mode-specific vibrational-state assignment for polyatomic product species using normal-mode analysis and Gaussian binning is also discussed and compared with experiment.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gábor Czakó
- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary.
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary.
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary.
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary.
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary.
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary.
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Espinosa-Garcia J, Rangel C. The CN(X 2Σ+) + C2H6 reaction: Dynamics study based on an analytical full-dimensional potential energy surface. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:124307. [PMID: 38127394 DOI: 10.1063/5.0172489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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The hydrogen abstraction reaction of the cyano radical with molecules of ethane presents some interesting points in the chemistry from ultra-cold to combustion environments especially with regard to HCN(v) product vibrational distribution. In order to understand its dynamics, a new analytical full-dimensional potential energy surface was developed, named PES-2023. It uses a combination of valence bond and mechanic molecular terms as the functional form, fitted to high-level ab initio calculations at the explicitly correlated CCSD(T)-F12/aug-cc-pVTZ level on a reduced and selected number of points describing the reactive process. The new surface showed a continuous and smooth behavior, describing reasonably the topology of the reaction: high exothermicity, low barrier, and presence of intermediate complexes in the entrance and exit channels. Using quasi-classical trajectory calculations (QCT) on the new PES-2023, a dynamics study was performed at room temperature with special emphasis on the HCN(v1,v2,v3) product stretching and bending vibrational excitations, and the results were compared with the experimental evidence, which presented discrepancies in the bending excitation. The available energy was mostly deposited as HCN(v) vibrational energy with the vibrational population inverted in the CH stretching mode and not inverted in the CN stretching and bending modes, thus simulating the experimental evidence. Other dynamics properties at room temperature were also analyzed; cold rotational energy distribution was found, associated with a linear and soft transition state, and backward scattering distribution was found, associated with a rebound mechanism.
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- Joaquin Espinosa-Garcia
- Área de Química Física and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
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- Área de Química Física and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
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Sierra Murillo JD. Vibrational and Rotational Gaussian Binning selections on QCT calculations for the OH + D2 → HOD((vHO’, vHOD’, vOD’), J’) + D reaction. Chem Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2021.111351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Espinosa-Garcia J, García-Chamorro M, Corchado JC. Rethinking the description of water product in polyatomic OH/OD + XH (X ≡ D, Br, NH2 and GeH3) reactions: theory/experimental comparison. Theor Chem Acc 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-020-2577-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Szabó I, Czakó G. Dynamics and Novel Mechanisms of S N2 Reactions on ab Initio Analytical Potential Energy Surfaces. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:9005-9019. [PMID: 28985079 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b08140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We describe a novel theoretical approach to the bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (SN2) reactions that is based on analytical potential energy surfaces (PESs) obtained by fitting a few tens of thousands high-level ab initio energy points. These PESs allow computing millions of quasi-classical trajectories thereby providing unprecedented statistical accuracy for SN2 reactions, as well as performing high-dimensional quantum dynamics computations. We developed full-dimensional ab initio PESs for the F- + CH3Y [Y = F, Cl, I] systems, which describe the direct and indirect, complex-forming Walden-inversion, the frontside attack, and the new double-inversion pathways as well as the proton-transfer channels. Reaction dynamics simulations on the new PESs revealed (a) a novel double-inversion SN2 mechanism, (b) frontside complex formation,
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- István Szabó
- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged , Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged , Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary
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Vibrational distribution and dynamics study of the HCN(v
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Li J, Corchado JC, Espinosa-Garcia J, Guo H. Final state-resolved mode specificity in HX + OH → X + H2O (X = F and Cl) reactions: A quasi-classical trajectory study. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:084314. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4913522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jun Li
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz 06071, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Espinosa-Garcia J, Corchado J, Bonnet L. Quasi-classical trajectory study of the water vibrational distribution for the polyatomic OH/OD+NH3 reactions: Comparison with experiment. Chem Phys Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2014.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Czakó G, Bowman JM. Reaction Dynamics of Methane with F, O, Cl, and Br on ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:2839-64. [DOI: 10.1021/jp500085h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Gábor Czakó
- Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Dynamics,
Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, H-1518 Budapest 112, P.O. Box 32, Hungary
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- Cherry
L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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Czakó G. Gaussian binning of the vibrational distributions for the Cl + CH4(v(4/2) = 0, 1) → H + CH3Cl(n(1)n(2)n(3)n(4)n(5)n(6)) reactions. J Phys Chem A 2012; 116:7467-73. [PMID: 22721354 DOI: 10.1021/jp3044797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We test several binning techniques to obtain mode-specific final-state distributions for polyatomic reactions. Normal mode analysis is done after an exact transformation to the Eckart frame. Standard histogram binning (HB) and three different variants of the energy-based Gaussian binning (1GB) are employed to obtain the probabilities of the vibrational states. We consider the two major issues of the polyatomic quasiclassical product analysis, i.e., (1) rounding the classical action to the nearest integer can result in unphysical states and (2) the normal-mode analysis can break down for highly distorted geometries. We show that 1GB can handle issue 1 when the total vibrational energy is evaluated in the normal mode space using the harmonic approximation and both issues 1 and 2 can be solved when the total vibrational energy is calculated exactly in the Cartesian space. We found that anharmonicity in the quantized energy levels does not have a significant effect on the final-state distributions. Quasiclassical trajectory calculations are performed for the reactant ground-state and bending-excited Cl((2)P(3/2)) + CH(4)(v(4/2) = 0, 1) → H + CH(3)Cl reactions using an ab initio potential energy surface. The product analysis techniques are successfully applied to the CH(3)Cl product molecules and some qualitative features of the results are discussed.
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- Gábor Czakó
- Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, H-1518 Budapest 112, P.O. Box 32,Hungary.
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Liu S, Xiao C, Wang T, Chen J, Yang T, Xu X, Zhang DH, Yang X. The dynamics of the D2 + OH → HOD + D reaction: A combined theoretical and experimental study. Faraday Discuss 2012; 157:101-11; discussion 113-40. [DOI: 10.1039/c2fd20018j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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