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Hansen K. DECAY DYNAMICS IN MOLECULAR BEAMS. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2021; 40:725-740. [PMID: 32362024 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The phenomenon of power law decays in molecular beams is reviewed. The transition from a canonical to a microcanonical description of the decay is analyzed, and the appearance of the power law decay derived. Deviations from a power law often contain information on parallel competing processes. This is illustrated with examples where thermal radiation or dark unimolecular channels are the competing processes. Also corrections to the power law due to finite heat capacities and from nonideal energy distributions are derived. Finally, the consequences for the interpretation of action spectroscopy data are reviewed. © 2020 The Authors. Mass Spectrometry Reviews published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Mass Spec Rev.
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- Klavs Hansen
- Department of Physics, School of Science, Center for Joint Quantum Studies, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, 300072, Tianjin, China
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Hren ZR, Lazarock CR, Vincent TA, Rivera-Rivera LA, Wagner AF. Pressure Effects on the Relaxation of an Excited Ethane Molecule in High-Pressure Bath Gases. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:8680-8690. [PMID: 34582214 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We use molecular dynamics to calculate the rotational and vibrational energy relaxation of C2H6 in Ar, Kr, and Xe bath gases over a pressure range of 10-400 atm and at temperatures of 300 and 800 K. The C2H6 is instantaneously excited by 80 kcal/mol randomly distributed into both vibrational and rotational modes. The computed relaxation rates show little sensitivity to the identity of the noble gas in the bath. Vibrational relaxation rates show a nonlinear pressure dependence at 300 K. At 800 K the reduced range of bath gas densities covered by the range of pressures does not yet show any nonlinearity in the pressure dependence. Rotational relaxation is characterized with two relaxation rates. The slower rate is comparable to the vibrational relaxation rate. The faster rate has a linear pressure dependence at 300 K but an irregular, nonlinear pressure dependence at 800 K. To understand this, a model was developed based on approximating the periodic box used in the molecular dynamics simulations by an equal-volume collection of cubes where each cube is sized to allow only single occupancy by the noble gas or the molecule. Combinatorial statistics then leads to a pressure- and temperature-dependent analytic distribution of the bath gas species the molecule encounters in a collision. This distribution, the dissociation energy of molecule/bath gas complexes and bath gas clusters, and the computed energy release per collision combine to show that only at 300 K is the energy release sufficient to dissociate likely complexes and clusters. This suggests that persistent and pressure-dependent clusters and complexes at 800 K may be responsible for the nonlinear pressure dependence of rotational relaxation.
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- Zackary R Hren
- Department of Physical Sciences, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan 49307, United States
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan 49307, United States
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan 49307, United States
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan 49307, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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Rivera‐Rivera LA, Wagner AF. Mode‐specific pressure effects on the relaxation of an excited nitromethane molecule in an argon bath. INT J CHEM KINET 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/kin.21415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Affiliation(s)
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne IL 60439 USA
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Jasper AW. Microcanonical Rate Constants for Unimolecular Reactions in the Low-Pressure Limit. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:1205-1226. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b10693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ahren W. Jasper
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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Ceotto M, Di Liberto G, Conte R. Semiclassical "Divide-and-Conquer" Method for Spectroscopic Calculations of High Dimensional Molecular Systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:010401. [PMID: 28731742 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.010401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2017] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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A new semiclassical "divide-and-conquer" method is presented with the aim of demonstrating that quantum dynamics simulations of high dimensional molecular systems are doable. The method is first tested by calculating the quantum vibrational power spectra of water, methane, and benzene-three molecules of increasing dimensionality for which benchmark quantum results are available-and then applied to C_{60}, a system characterized by 174 vibrational degrees of freedom. Results show that the approach can accurately account for quantum anharmonicities, purely quantum features like overtones, and the removal of degeneracy when the molecular symmetry is broken.
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- Michele Ceotto
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via C. Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via C. Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via C. Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Aieta C, Ceotto M. A quantum method for thermal rate constant calculations from stationary phase approximation of the thermal flux-flux correlation function integral. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:214115. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4984099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Chiara Aieta
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via C. Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via C. Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Gabas F, Conte R, Ceotto M. On-the-Fly ab Initio Semiclassical Calculation of Glycine Vibrational Spectrum. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:2378-2388. [PMID: 28489368 PMCID: PMC5472367 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b01018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We
present an on-the-fly ab initio semiclassical study of vibrational
energy levels of glycine, calculated by Fourier transform of the wavepacket
correlation function. It is based on a multiple coherent states approach
integrated with monodromy matrix regularization for chaotic dynamics.
All four lowest-energy glycine conformers are investigated by means
of single-trajectory semiclassical spectra obtained upon classical
evolution of on-the-fly trajectories with harmonic zero-point energy.
For the most stable conformer I, direct dynamics trajectories are
also run for each vibrational mode with energy equal to the first
harmonic excitation. An analysis of trajectories evolved up to 50 000
atomic time units demonstrates that, in this time span, conformers
II and III can be considered as isolated species, while conformers
I and IV show a pretty facile interconversion. Therefore, previous
perturbative studies based on the assumption of isolated conformers
are often reliable but might be not completely appropriate in the
case of conformer IV and conformer I for which interconversion occurs
promptly.
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- Fabio Gabas
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano , via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano , via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano , via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Olasz B, Szabó I, Czakó G. High-level ab initio potential energy surface and dynamics of the F - + CH 3I S N2 and proton-transfer reactions. Chem Sci 2017; 8:3164-3170. [PMID: 28507692 PMCID: PMC5413972 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc00033b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (SN2) and proton transfer are fundamental processes in chemistry and F- + CH3I is an important prototype of these reactions. Here we develop the first full-dimensional ab initio analytical potential energy surface (PES) for the F- + CH3I system using a permutationally invariant fit of high-level composite energies obtained with the combination of the explicitly-correlated CCSD(T)-F12b method, the aug-cc-pVTZ basis, core electron correlation effects, and a relativistic effective core potential for iodine. The PES accurately describes the SN2 channel producing I- + CH3F via Walden-inversion, front-side attack, and double-inversion pathways as well as the proton-transfer channel leading to HF + CH2I-. The relative energies of the stationary points on the PES agree well with the new explicitly-correlated all-electron CCSD(T)-F12b/QZ-quality benchmark values. Quasiclassical trajectory computations on the PES show that the proton transfer becomes significant at high collision energies and double-inversion as well as front-side attack trajectories can occur. The computed broad angular distributions and hot internal energy distributions indicate the dominance of indirect mechanisms at lower collision energies, which is confirmed by analyzing the integration time and leaving group velocity distributions. Comparison with available crossed-beam experiments shows usually good agreement.
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- Balázs Olasz
- 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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- 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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Ling H, Xia M, Chen W, Chai Z, Wang D. Influence of denticity and combined soft–hard strategy on the interaction of picolinic-type ligands with NpO2+. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra26114k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The denticity of the ligands and the combined hard–soft donor strategy work cooperatively in the coordination of NpO2+ with ligands.
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- Hongcai Ling
- College of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou 350116
- P. R. China
- Multidisciplinary Initiative Center
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- Multidisciplinary Initiative Center
- Institute of High Energy Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100049
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou 350116
- P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Techniques in Geosciences Sichuan
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- Multidisciplinary Initiative Center
- Institute of High Energy Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100049
- P. R. China
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- Multidisciplinary Initiative Center
- Institute of High Energy Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100049
- P. R. China
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Sun J, Shao Y, Wu W, Tang Y, Zhang Y, Hu Y, Liu J, Yi H, Chen F, Cheng Y. A quantum chemical study on ˙Cl-initiated atmospheric degradation of acrylonitrile. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra01521f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Degradation of acrylonitrile (CH2CHCN) by reaction with atomic chlorine was studied using quantum chemical methods.
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Houston PL, Conte R, Bowman JM. Roaming Under the Microscope: Trajectory Study of Formaldehyde Dissociation. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:5103-14. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b00488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Paul L. Houston
- School
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Baker Laboratory, Ithaca, New York 14852, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department
of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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Babikov D, Semenov A. Recent Advances in Development and Applications of the Mixed Quantum/Classical Theory for Inelastic Scattering. J Phys Chem A 2015; 120:319-31. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b09569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Dmitri Babikov
- Chemistry
Department, Wehr
Chemistry Building, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881, United States
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- Chemistry
Department, Wehr
Chemistry Building, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881, United States
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Steill JD, Jasper AW, Chandler DW. Determination of the collisional energy transfer distribution responsible for the collision-induced dissociation of NO2 with Ar. Chem Phys Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2015.06.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Houston PL, Conte R, Bowman JM. A Model For Energy Transfer in Collisions of Atoms with Highly Excited Molecules. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:4695-710. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b00219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Paul L. Houston
- School
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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Vereecken L, Glowacki DR, Pilling MJ. Theoretical Chemical Kinetics in Tropospheric Chemistry: Methodologies and Applications. Chem Rev 2015; 115:4063-114. [DOI: 10.1021/cr500488p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Luc Vereecken
- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- PULSE
Institute and Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
- Department
of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdom
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Conte R, Houston PL, Bowman JM. Trajectory Study of Energy Transfer and Unimolecular Dissociation of Highly Excited Allyl with Argon. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:7742-57. [DOI: 10.1021/jp5062013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Riccardo Conte
- Department
of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- School
of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Baker Laboratory, Ithaca, New York 14852, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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