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Tajouo Tela H, Quintas-Sánchez E, Dubernet ML, Scribano Y, Dawes R, Gatti F, Ndengué S. Rovibrational states calculations of the H 2O-HCN heterodimer with the multiconfiguration time dependent Hartree method. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:31813-31824. [PMID: 37966067 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03225f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
Abstract
Water and hydrogen cyanide are two of the most common species in space and the atmosphere with the ability of binding to form dimers such as H2O-HCN. In the literature, while calculations characterizing various properties of the H2O-HCN cluster (equilibrium distance, vibrational frequencies and rotational constants) have been done in the past, extensive calculations of the rovibrational states of this system using a reliable quantum dynamical approach have yet to be reported. In this work, we intend to mend that by performing the first calculation of the rovibrational states of the H2O-HCN van der Waals complex on a recently developed potential energy surface. We use the block improved relaxation procedure implemented in the Heidelberg MultiConfiguration Time-Dependent Hartree (MCTDH) package to compute the states of the H2O-HCN isomer, from which we extract the transition frequencies and rotational constants of the complex. We further adapt an approach first suggested by Wang and Carrington-and supported here by analysis routines of the Heidelberg MCTDH package-to properly characterize the computed rovibrational states. The subsequent assignment of rovibrational states was done by theoretical analysis and visual inspection of the wavefunctions. Our simulations provide a Zero Point Energy (ZPE) and intermolecular vibrational frequencies in good agreement with past ab initio calculations. The transition frequencies and rotational constants obtained from our simulations match well with the available experimental data. This work has the broad aim to propose the MCTDH approach as a reliable option to compute and characterize rovibrational states of van der Waals complexes such as the current one.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hervé Tajouo Tela
- ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 65409 Rolla, Missouri, USA
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- LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne University, UPMC Univ Paris 06, 75014 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, UMR-CNRS 5299, Université de Montpellier, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 65409 Rolla, Missouri, USA
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- Institut de Sciences Moleculaires d'Orsay, UMR 8214, Université Paris-Sud - Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
- Department of Physics, Trinity College, 06106 Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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Vindel-Zandbergen P, Kȩdziera D, Żółtowski M, Kłos J, Żuchowski P, Felker PM, Lique F, Bačić Z. H2O-HCN complex: A new potential energy surface and intermolecular rovibrational states from rigorous quantum calculations. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:174302. [PMID: 37909452 DOI: 10.1063/5.0173751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023] Open
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In this work the H2O-HCN complex is quantitatively characterized in two ways. First, we report a new rigid-monomer 5D intermolecular potential energy surface (PES) for this complex, calculated using the symmetry-adapted perturbation theory based on density functional theory method. The PES is based on 2833 ab initio points computed employing the aug-cc-pVQZ basis set, utilizing the autoPES code, which provides a site-site analytical fit with the long-range region given by perturbation theory. Next, we present the results of the quantum 5D calculations of the fully coupled intermolecular rovibrational states of the H2O-HCN complex for the total angular momentum J values of 0, 1, and 2, performed on the new PES. These calculations rely on the quantum bound-state methodology developed by us recently and applied to a variety of noncovalently bound binary molecular complexes. The vibrationally averaged ground-state geometry of H2O-HCN determined from the quantum 5D calculations agrees very well with that from the microwave spectroscopic measurements. In addition, the computed ground-state rotational transition frequencies, as well as the B and C rotational constants calculated for the ground state of the complex, are in excellent agreement with the experimental values. The assignment of the calculated intermolecular vibrational states of the H2O-HCN complex is surprisingly challenging. It turns out that only the excitations of the intermolecular stretch mode can be assigned with confidence. The coupling among the angular degrees of freedom (DOFs) of the complex is unusually strong, and as a result most of the excited intermolecular states are unassigned. On the other hand, the coupling of the radial, intermolecular stretch mode and the angular DOFs is weak, allowing straightforward assignment of the excitation of the former.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, ul. Gagarina 7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- University of Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
- LOMC - UMR 6294, CNRS-Université du Havre, 25 rue Philippe Lebon, BP1123, 76 063 Le Havre cedex, France
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- Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Grudziądzka 5, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA
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- University of Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
- Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry at New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai 200062, China
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Gartner T, Lauzin C, McKellar ARW, Moazzen-Ahmadi N. Infrared Spectra of the Water-CO 2 Complex in the 4.3-3.6 μm Region and Determination of the Ground State Tunneling Splitting for HDO-CO 2. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:3668-3674. [PMID: 37067811 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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Spectra of water─CO2 dimers are studied using a tunable mid-infrared source to probe a pulsed slit jet supersonic expansion. H2O-CO2 and D2O-CO2 are observed in the CO2 ν3 fundamental region (≈2350 cm-1), D2O-CO2 is also observed in the D2O ν3 fundamental region (≈2790 cm-1), and HDO-CO2 is observed in the HDO O-D stretch fundamental region (≈2720 cm-1), all for the first time in these regions. Analysis of the spectra yields excited state rotational parameters and vibrational shifts. They also yield the first experimental values of the ground state internal rotation tunneling splittings for D2O-CO2 (0.003 cm-1) and HDO-CO2 (0.0234 cm-1). The latter value is a direct determination made possible by the reduced symmetry of HDO-CO2. These results provide stringent and easily interpreted tests for theoretical water-CO2 potential energy surface calculations.
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- Travis Gartner
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive North West, Calgary T2N 1N4, Alberta, Canada
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve B-1348, Belgium
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- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa K1A 0R6, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive North West, Calgary T2N 1N4, Alberta, Canada
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Jiang J, Zhu B, Jiang X, Lu B, Zeng X. Photochemistry of phosphenic chloride (ClPO 2): isomerization with chlorine metaphosphite (ClOPO) and reduction by carbon monoxide. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:20828-20836. [PMID: 36040114 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02986c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Phosphenic chloride (ClPO2) is an elusive congener of nitryl chloride (ClNO2). By high-vacuum flash pyrolysis of 2-chloro-1,3,2-dioxaphospholane in the gas phase, ClPO2 has been efficiently generated and subsequently isolated in cryogenic N2, Ar, and CO matrices (10 K) for a first time study on its photochemistry. Upon 193 nm laser irradiation, ClPO2 isomerizes to the novel chlorine metaphosphite (ClOPO) by initial cleavage of the Cl-P bond (→ ˙Cl + ˙PO2) with subsequent Cl-O bond formation inside the N2 and Ar matrix cages. The reverse transformation becomes feasible under further irradiation at 266 nm. This photochemistry is consistent with the observed absorptions of ClPO2 and ClOPO at 207 and 250 nm, respectively. When the photolysis was performed in solid CO ice, no isomerization occurs due to CO-trapping of the initially generated ˙Cl atoms by forming caged radical pair ClCO˙⋯˙PO2. Concomitantly, photolytic reduction of ClPO2 to ClPO by CO has been observed, yielding a weakly bonded molecular complex consisting of ClPO and CO2 bonded through short intermolecular C⋯O contact (2.910 Å). The characterization of ClPO, ClPO2, ClOPO, and the molecular complexes of ClPO2-CO and ClPO-CO2 using matrix-isolation IR and UV-vis spectroscopy is supported by the theoretical calculations at the B3LYP/6-311 + G(3df) level, and the photochemistry of ClPO2 is also compared with the revisited photochemistry of ClNO2 in the N2-matrix.
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- Junjie Jiang
- 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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Felker PM, Bačić Z. Noncovalently bound molecular complexes beyond diatom–diatom systems: full-dimensional, fully coupled quantum calculations of rovibrational states. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:24655-24676. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04005k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The methodological advances made in recent years have significantly extended the range and dimensionality of noncovalently bound molecular complexes for which full-dimensional quantum calculations of their rovibrational states are feasible.
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- Peter M. Felker
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA
- Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry at New York University, USA
- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai, 200062, China
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