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Song H, Guo H. Theoretical Insights into the Dynamics of Gas-Phase Bimolecular Reactions with Submerged Barriers. ACS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AU 2023; 3:406-418. [PMID: 37780541 PMCID: PMC10540288 DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.3c00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
Abstract
Much attention has been paid to the dynamics of both activated gas-phase bimolecular reactions, which feature monotonically increasing integral cross sections and Arrhenius kinetics, and their barrierless capture counterparts, which manifest monotonically decreasing integral cross sections and negative temperature dependence of the rate coefficients. In this Perspective, we focus on the dynamics of gas-phase bimolecular reactions with submerged barriers, which often involve radicals or ions and are prevalent in combustion, atmospheric chemistry, astrochemistry, and plasma chemistry. The temperature dependence of the rate coefficients for such reactions is often non-Arrhenius and complex, and the corresponding dynamics may also be quite different from those with significant barriers or those completely dominated by capture. Recent experimental and theoretical studies of such reactions, particularly at relatively low temperatures or collision energies, have revealed interesting dynamical behaviors, which are discussed here. The new knowledge enriches our understanding of the dynamics of these unusual reactions.
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- Hongwei Song
- State
Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science
and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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Menéndez M, Garcia E, Lara M, Jambrina PG, Aoiz FJ. Li + HF and Li + HCl Reactions Revisited I: QCT Calculations and Simulation of Experimental Results. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:6924-6944. [PMID: 37579497 PMCID: PMC10461305 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c03763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/16/2023]
Abstract
The Li + HF and Li + HCl reactions share some common features. They have the same kinematics, relatively small barrier heights, bent transition states, and are both exothermic when the zero point energy is considered. Nevertheless, the pioneering crossed beam experiments by Lee and co-workers in the 80s (Becker et al., J. Chem. Phys. 1980, 73, 2833) revealed that the dynamics of the two reactions differ significantly, especially at low collision energies. In this work, we present theoretical simulations of their results in the laboratory frame (LAB), based on quasiclassical trajectories and obtained using accurate potential energy surfaces. The calculated LAB angular distributions and time-of-flight spectra agree well with the raw experimental data, although our simulations do not reproduce the experimentally derived center-of-mass (CM) differential cross section and velocity distributions. The latter were derived by forward convolution fitting under the questionable assumption that the CM recoil velocity and scattering angle distribution were uncoupled, while our results show that the coupling between them is relevant. Some important insights into the reaction mechanism discussed in the article by Becker et al. had not been contrasted with those that can be extracted from the theoretical results. Among them, the correlation between the angular momenta involved in the reactions has also been examined. Given the kinematics of both systems, the reagent orbital angular momentum, l , is almost completely transformed into the rotation of the product diatom, j'. However, contrary to the coplanar mechanism proposed in the original paper, we find that the initial and final relative orbital angular momenta are not necessarily parallel. Both reactions are found to be essentially direct, although about 15% of the LiFH complexes live longer than 200 fs.
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- Marta Menéndez
- Departamento
de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento
de Química Física, Universidad
del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), 01006 Vitoria, Spain
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- Departamento
de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28039 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento
de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
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- Departamento
de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Liang P, de Aragão EVF, Giani L, Mancini L, Pannacci G, Marchione D, Vanuzzo G, Faginas-Lago N, Rosi M, Skouteris D, Casavecchia P, Balucani N. OH( 2Π) + C 2H 4 Reaction: A Combined Crossed Molecular Beam and Theoretical Study. J Phys Chem A 2023. [PMID: 37207281 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The reaction between the ground-state hydroxyl radical, OH(2Π), and ethylene, C2H4, has been investigated under single-collision conditions by the crossed molecular beam scattering technique with mass-spectrometric detection and time-of-flight analysis at the collision energy of 50.4 kJ/mol. Electronic structure calculations of the underlying potential energy surface (PES) and statistical Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus (RRKM) calculations of product branching fractions on the derived PES for the addition pathway have been performed. The theoretical results indicate a temperature-dependent competition between the anti-/syn-CH2CHOH (vinyl alcohol) + H, CH3CHO (acetaldehyde) + H, and H2CO (formaldehyde) + CH3 product channels. The yield of the H-abstraction channel could not be quantified with the employed methods. The RRKM results predict that under our experimental conditions, the anti- and syn-CH2CHOH + H product channels account for 38% (in similar amounts) of the addition mechanism yield, the H2CO + CH3 channel for ∼58%, while the CH3CHO + H channel is formed in negligible amount (<4%). The implications for combustion and astrochemical environments are discussed.
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- Pengxiao Liang
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
- Master-Tec Srl, Via Sicilia, 41, Perugia 06128, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
- Université Grenoble Alpes, 621 Av. Centrale, Saint-Martin-d'Hères 38400, France
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
- Master-Tec Srl, Via Sicilia, 41, Perugia 06128, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Ed Ambientale, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06125, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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Liang P, de Aragão EVF, Pannacci G, Vanuzzo G, Giustini A, Marchione D, Recio P, Ferlin F, Stranges D, Lago NF, Rosi M, Casavecchia P, Balucani N. Reactions O( 3P, 1D) + HCCCN(X 1Σ +) (Cyanoacetylene): Crossed-Beam and Theoretical Studies and Implications for the Chemistry of Extraterrestrial Environments. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:685-703. [PMID: 36638186 PMCID: PMC9884085 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c07708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Cyanoacetylene (HCCCN), the first member of the cyanopolyyne family (HCnN, where n = 3, 5, 7, ...), is of particular interest in astrochemistry being ubiquitous in space (molecular clouds, solar-type protostars, protoplanetary disks, circumstellar envelopes, and external galaxies) and also relatively abundant. It is also abundant in the upper atmosphere of Titan and comets. Since oxygen is the third most abundant element in space, after hydrogen and helium, the reaction O + HCCCN can be of relevance in the chemistry of extraterrestrial environments. Despite that, scarce information exists not only on the reactions of oxygen atoms with cyanoacetylene but with nitriles in general. Here, we report on a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the reactions of cyanoacetylene with both ground 3P and excited 1D atomic oxygen and provide detailed information on the primary reaction products, their branching fractions (BFs), and the overall reaction mechanisms. More specifically, the reactions of O(3P, 1D) with HCCCN(X1Σ+) have been investigated under single-collision conditions by the crossed molecular beams scattering method with mass spectrometric detection and time-of-flight analysis at the collision energy, Ec, of 31.1 kJ/mol. From product angular and time-of-flight distributions, we have identified the primary reaction products and determined their branching fractions (BFs). Theoretical calculations of the relevant triplet and singlet potential energy surfaces (PESs) were performed to assist the interpretation of the experimental results and clarify the reaction mechanism. Adiabatic statistical calculations of product BFs for the decomposition of the main triplet and singlet intermediates have also been carried out. Merging together the experimental and theoretical results, we conclude that the O(3P) reaction is characterized by a minor adiabatic channel leading to OCCCN (cyanoketyl) + H (experimental BF = 0.10 ± 0.05), while the dominant channel (BF = 0.90 ± 0.05) occurs via intersystem crossing to the underlying singlet PES and leads to formation of 1HCCN (cyanomethylene) + CO. The O(1D) reaction is characterized by the same two channels, with the relative CO/H yield being slightly larger. Considering the recorded reactive signal and the calculated entrance barrier, we estimate that the rate coefficient for reaction O(3P) + HC3N at 300 K is in the 10-12 cm3 molec-1 s-1 range. Our results are expected to be useful to improve astrochemical and photochemical models. In addition, they are also relevant in combustion chemistry, because the thermal decomposition of pyrrolic and pyridinic structures present in fuel-bound nitrogen generates many nitrogen-bearing compounds, including cyanoacetylene.
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- Pengxiao Liang
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy,Master-Tec
srl, Via Sicilia 41, Perugia 06128, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
La Sapienza, Roma 00185, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy,E-mail:
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy,E-mail:
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Unraveling sulfur chemistry in interstellar carbon oxide ices. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7150. [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34949-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
AbstractFormyl radical (HCO•) and hydroxycarbonyl radical (HOCO•) are versatile building blocks in the formation of biorelevant complex organic molecules (COMs) in interstellar medium. Understanding the chemical pathways for the formation of HCO• and HOCO• starting with primordial substances (e.g., CO and CO2) is of vital importance in building the complex network of prebiotic chemistry. Here, we report the efficient formation of HCO• and HOCO• in the photochemistry of hydroxidooxidosulfur radical (HOSO•)–a key intermediate in SO2 photochemistry–in interstellar analogous ices of CO and CO2 at 16 K through hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions. Specifically, 266 nm laser photolysis of HOSO• embedded in solid CO ice yields the elusive hydrogen‑bonded complexes HCO•···SO2 and HOCO•···SO, and the latter undergoes subsequent HAT to furnish CO2···HOS• under the irradiation conditions. Similar photo-induced HAT of HOSO• in solid CO2 ice leads to the formation of HOCO•···SO2. The HAT reactions of HOSO• in astronomical CO and CO2 ices by forming reactive acyl radicals may contribute to understanding the interplay between the sulfur and carbon ice-grain chemistry in cold molecular clouds and also in the planetary atmospheric chemistry.
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Wang C, Yu J, Ren G, Hu A, Liu X, Chen Y, Ye J, Zhou S, He Z. Self-replicating Biophotoelectrochemistry System for Sustainable CO Methanation. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:4587-4596. [PMID: 35290037 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c08340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Efficient conversion of CO-rich gas to methane (CH4) provides an effective energy solution by taking advantage of existing natural gas infrastructures. However, traditional chemical and biological conversions face different challenges. Herein, an innovative biophotoelectrochemistry (BPEC) system using Methanosarcina barkeri-CdS as a biohybrid catalyst was successfully employed for CO methanation. Compared with CO2-fed BPEC, BPEC-CO significantly extended the CH4 producing time by 1.7-fold and exhibited a higher CH4 yield by 9.5-fold under light irradiation. This superior conversion of CO resulted from the fact that CO could serve as an effective quencher of reactive species along with the photoelectron production. In addition, CO was used as a carbon source either directly or indirectly via the produced CO2 for M. barkeri. Such a process improved the redox activities of membrane-bound proteins for BPEC methanogenesis. These results were consistent with the transcriptomic analyses, in which the genes for the putative CO oxidation and CO2 reduction pathways in M. barkeri were highly expressed, while the gene expression for reactive oxygen species detoxification remained relatively stable under light irradiation. This study has provided the first proof-of-concept evidence for sustainable CO methanation under a mild condition in the self-replicating BPEC system.
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- Chao Wang
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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Wang L, Li X, Jiang X, Zeng X, Zhou M. Spectroscopic Identification of the Heterocumulenic Isocyanatoborane Radical HBNCO. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:2619-2624. [PMID: 35294206 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The highly elusive isocyanatoborane radical HBNCO has been generated by the reaction of laser-ablated boron atoms with HNCO and also by the light-induced chemical transformation of the hydrogen-bonded molecule-radical complex BNH···CO in solid neon matrix. IR spectroscopic and theoretical studies indicate that the HBNCO radical possesses a quasilinear B═N═C═O heterocumulenic structure with the unpaired electron mainly located at the boron atom. This is in sharp contrast to the bonding properties of the isoelectronic analogues HCCCO and NCCO, in which the unpaired electron is located at the terminal CO moiety.
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- Lina Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysts and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysts and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysts and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysts and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysts and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Quasi-classical trajectory study of inelastic collision energy transfer between H2CO and H2 on a full-dimensional potential energy surface. Chem Phys Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2021.139014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Zhao S, Yan S, Liu X, Yang L, Sun S, Zhang J. Effect of water on dynamics of HOCO radical. Chem Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2021.111173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Qin J, Li J. An accurate full-dimensional potential energy surface for the reaction OH + SO → H + SO2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:487-497. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp05206j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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An accurate full-dimensional PES for the OH + SO ↔ H + SO2 reaction is developed by the permutation invariant polynomial-neural network approach.
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- Jie Qin
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Chongqing University
- Chongqing 401331
- China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Chongqing University
- Chongqing 401331
- China
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Qin J, Liu Y, Lu D, Li J. Theoretical Study for the Ground Electronic State of the Reaction OH + SO → H + SO2. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:7218-7227. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b05776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jie Qin
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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Sun P, Chen J, Liu S, Zhang DH. Accurate integral cross sections for the H + CO2 → OH + CO reaction. Chem Phys Lett 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2018.07.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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