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Eraković M, Cvitaš MT. Tunneling splittings using modified WKB method in Cartesian coordinates: The test case of vinyl radical. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:154112. [PMID: 38639313 DOI: 10.1063/5.0204986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 03/31/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
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Modified WKB theory for calculating tunneling splittings in symmetric multi-well systems in full dimensionality is re-derived using Cartesian coordinates. It is explicitly shown that the theory rests on the wavefunction that is exact for harmonic potentials. The theory was applied to calculate tunneling splittings in vinyl radical and some of its deuterated isotopologues in their vibrational ground states and the low-lying vibrationally excited states and compared to exact variational results. The exact results are reproduced within a factor of 2 in most states. Remarkably, all large enhancements of tunneling splittings relative to the ground state, up to three orders in magnitude in some excited mode combinations, are well reproduced. It is also shown that in the asymmetrically deuterated vinyl radical, the theory correctly predicts the states that are localized in a single well and the delocalized tunneling states. Modified WKB theory on the minimum action path is computationally inexpensive and can also be applied without modification to much larger systems in full dimensionality; the results of this test case serve to give insight into the expected accuracy of the method.
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- Mihael Eraković
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička Cesta 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Physics, University of Zagreb Faculty of Science, Bijenička Cesta 32, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Hayashi M, Matsubayashi H, Ichiyama T, Harada K, Tanaka K. Millimeter-wave spectroscopy of HDC=CH. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:184304. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5126671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Masato Hayashi
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishiku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishiku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishiku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishiku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- International Center of Space Weather Science and Education, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishiku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishiku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- International Center of Space Weather Science and Education, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishiku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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Šmydke J, Fábri C, Sarka J, Császár AG. Rovibrational quantum dynamics of the vinyl radical and its deuterated isotopologues. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:3453-3472. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04672g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rotational–vibrational states up to 3200 cm−1, beyond the highest-lying stretching fundamental, are computed variationally for the vinyl radical (VR), H2CβCαH, and the following deuterated isotopologues of VR: CH2CD, CHDCH, and CD2CD.
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- Jan Šmydke
- MTA-ELTE Complex Chemical Systems Research Group and Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Dynamics
- Institute of Chemistry
- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
- H-1117 Budapest
- Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Complex Chemical Systems Research Group and Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Dynamics
- Institute of Chemistry
- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
- H-1117 Budapest
- Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Texas Tech University
- Lubbock
- USA
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- MTA-ELTE Complex Chemical Systems Research Group and Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Dynamics
- Institute of Chemistry
- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
- H-1117 Budapest
- Hungary
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Yu HG, Song H, Yang M. A rigorous full-dimensional quantum dynamics study of tunneling splitting of rovibrational states of vinyl radical C2H3. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:224307. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4985183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Hua-Gen Yu
- Division of Chemistry, Department of Energy and Photon Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793-5000, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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McCarthy MC, Lattanzi V, Kokkin D, Martinez O, Stanton JF. On the molecular structure of HOOO. J Chem Phys 2012; 136:034303. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3673875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Hayashi M, Harada K, Lavrich R, Tanaka T, Tanaka K. Millimeter-wave spectroscopy of H(2)C=CD: Tunneling splitting and ortho-para mixing interaction. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:154303. [PMID: 20969382 DOI: 10.1063/1.3478696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The H(2)C=CD isotopic species of vinyl radical produced in a supersonic jet expansion by ultraviolet laser photolysis was studied by millimeter-wave spectroscopy. Due to the tunneling motion of the α deuteron, the ground state is split into two components, 0(+) and 0(-). Tunneling-rotation transitions connecting the lower (0(+)) and upper (0(-)) components of the tunneling doublet were observed in the frequency region of 184-334 GHz, including three R- and two Q-branch transitions. Three and two pure rotational transitions in the K(a)=0 and 1 stacks, respectively, were also observed for each of the 0(+) and 0(-) states in the frequency region of 52-159 GHz. Least-squares analysis of the observed frequencies for the tunneling-rotation and pure rotational transitions with well resolved hyperfine structures yielded a set of precise molecular constants, among which the tunneling splitting in the ground state was determined to be ΔE(0)=1187.234(17) MHz, which is 1/14 that for H(2)C=CH. The potential barrier height derived from the observed tunneling splitting by an analysis of the tunneling dynamics using a one-dimensional model is 1545 cm(-1), consistent with the value 1568 cm(-1) obtained for the normal vinyl. The observed spectrum was found to be perturbed by a hyperfine interaction connecting ortho and para levels. The constant for the interaction, which we call the ortho-para mixing Fermi contact interaction, has been determined to be δa(F) ((β))=68.06(53) MHz. This is believed to be the first definite detection of such an interaction. By this interaction the ortho and para states of H(2)C=CD are mixed up to about 0.1%. The constant is more than 1000 times larger than spin-rotation interaction constants that cause ortho-para mixing in closed shell molecules and suggests extremely rapid conversion between the ortho and para nuclear spin isomers of H(2)C=CD.
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- Masato Hayashi
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Higashiku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
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Nikow M, Wilhelm MJ, Dai HL. Vibrational modes of the vinyl and deuterated vinyl radicals. J Phys Chem A 2009; 113:8857-70. [PMID: 19594157 DOI: 10.1021/jp809735e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Following the initial report of the detection of fundamental transitions of all nine vibrational modes of the vinyl radical [Letendre , L. ; Liu , D.-K. ; Pibel , C. D. ; Halpern , J. B. ; Dai , H.-L. J. Chem. Phys. 2000 , 112 , 9209] by time-resolved IR emission spectroscopy, we have re-examined the assignments of the vibrational modes through isotope substitution. Precursor molecules vinyl chloride-d3, vinyl bromide-d3, and 1,3-butadiene-d6 are used for generating vibrationally excited vinyl-d3 through 193 nm photolysis. The nondeuterated versions of these molecules along with vinyl iodide and methyl vinyl ketone are used as precursors for the production of vinyl-h3. IR emission following the 193 nm photolysis laser pulse is recorded with nanosecond time and approximately 8 cm(-1) frequency resolution. A room-temperature acetylene gas cell is used as a filter to remove the fundamental transitions of acetylene, a photolysis product, in order to reduce the complexity of the emission spectra. Two-dimensional cross-spectra correlation analysis is used to identify the emission bands from the same emitting species and improve the S/N of the emission spectra. Isotope substitution allows the identification of several low-frequency vibrational modes. For C2H3, the assigned modes are the nu4 (CC stretch) at 1595, nu5 (CH2 symmetric bend) at 1401, nu6 (CH2 asymmetric + alpha-CH bend) at 1074, nu8 (CH2 + alpha-CH symmetric out-of-plane (oop) bend) at 944, and nu9 (CH2 + alpha-CH asymmetric oop bend) at 897 cm(-1). For C2D3, the modes are the nu5 (CD2 symmetric bend) at 1060, nu6 (CD2 asymmetric + alpha-CD bend) at 820, and nu8 (CD2 + alpha-CD symmetric oop bend) at 728 cm(-1).
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- Matthew Nikow
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Dong F, Roberts M, Nesbitt DJ. High-resolution infrared spectroscopy of jet-cooled vinyl radical: Symmetric CH2 stretch excitation and tunneling dynamics. J Chem Phys 2008; 128:044305. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2816704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Mil'nikov GV, Ishida T, Nakamura H. Tunneling Splitting of Energy Levels and Rotational Constants in the Vinyl Radical C2H3. J Phys Chem A 2006; 110:5430-5. [PMID: 16623471 DOI: 10.1021/jp055667s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The instanton theory newly implemented by two of the authors (G.V.M. and H.N.) is applied to hydrogen tunneling transfer in a vinyl radical. The converged instanton trajectory is found on the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ level of an ab initio potential energy surface. The calculated ground-state energy splitting agrees with the recent high-resolution experimental data within 3% of discrepancy. The semiclassical wave function is used to estimate the splitting of the principal rotational constants of the radical.
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- Gennady V Mil'nikov
- Department of Theoretical Studies, Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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Tanaka K, Toshimitsu M, Harada K, Tanaka T. Determination of the proton tunneling splitting of the vinyl radical in the ground state by millimeter-wave spectroscopy combined with supersonic jet expansion and ultraviolet photolysis. J Chem Phys 2004; 120:3604-18. [PMID: 15268522 DOI: 10.1063/1.1642583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The vinyl radical in the ground vibronic state produced in a supersonic jet expansion by 193 nm excimer laser photolysis of vinyl bromide was investigated by millimeter-wave spectroscopy. Due to the proton tunneling, the ground state is split into two components, of which the lower and higher ones are denoted as 0+ and 0-, respectively. Eight pure rotational transitions with Ka = 0 and 1 obeying a-type selection rules were observed for each of the 0+ and 0- states in the frequency region of 60-250 GHz. Tunneling-rotation transitions connecting the lower (0+) and upper (0-) components of the tunneling doublet, obeying b-type selection rules, were also observed in the frequency region of 190-310 GHz, including three R- and six Q-branch transitions. The observed frequencies of the pure rotational and tunneling-rotation transitions were analyzed by using an effective Hamiltonian in which the coupling between the 0+ and 0- states was taken into account. A set of precise molecular constants was obtained. Among others, the proton tunneling splitting in the ground state was determined to be DeltaE0 = 16,272(2) MHz. The potential barrier height was estimated to be 1580 cm(-1) from the proton tunneling splitting, by an analysis using a detailed one-dimensional model. The spin-rotation and hyperfine interaction constants were also determined for the 0+ and 0- states together with the off-diagonal interaction constants connecting the 0+ and 0- states, epsilonab + epsilonba for the spin-rotation interaction and Tab for the hyperfine interaction of the alpha (CH) proton. The hyperfine interaction constants, due to the alpha proton and the beta (CH2) protons, are consistent with those derived from electron spin resonance studies.
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- Keiichi Tanaka
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University 33, Hakozaki, Higashiku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
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Kim E, Yamamoto S. Fourier transform millimeter-wave spectroscopy of the ethyl radical in the electronic ground state. J Chem Phys 2004; 120:3265-9. [PMID: 15268480 DOI: 10.1063/1.1640616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The pure rotational spectrum of the ethyl radical (C2H5) has been detected for the first time with the Fourier transform millimeter-wave spectrometer. The ethyl radical is produced by discharging the C2H5I gas diluted in Ar. The 1(01)-0(00) rotational transition of the ethyl radical is observed in the frequency range from 43,680 to 43,780 MHz. The observed spectrum shows a very complicated pattern of the fine and hyperfine structures of a doublet radical with the nuclear spins of five protons. The fine and hyperfine components are assigned with the aid of measurements of the Zeeman splittings. As a result, the 22 lines are ascribed to the transitions in the ground vibronic state (A2"). The rotational constant, the spin-rotation interaction constant, and hyperfine interaction constants are determined by the least-squares fit. The Fermi contact term of the alpha-proton is determined to be -64.1654 MHz in the gas phase, indicating that the structure of the -CH2 is essentially planar. The present rotational spectroscopic study further supports that the methyl group of the ethyl radical can be regarded as a nearly free internal rotor with a low energy barrier. A few unassigned lines still remain, which may be vibrational satellites of the internal rotation mode.
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- Eunsook Kim
- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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