High-dimensional ab initio potential energy surfaces for reaction dynamics calculations

JM Bowman, G Czako, B Fu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been great progress in the development of potential energy surfaces (PESs) for
reaction dynamics that are fits to ab initio energies. The fitting techniques described here …

Do Vibrational Excitations of CHD3 Preferentially Promote Reactivity Toward the Chlorine Atom?

S Yan, YT Wu, B Zhang, XF Yue, K Liu - Science, 2007 - science.org
The influence of vibrational excitation on chemical reaction dynamics is well understood in
triatomic reactions, but the multiple modes in larger systems complicate efforts toward the …

Computational Chemistry of Polyatomic Reaction Kinetics and Dynamics:  The Quest for an Accurate CH5 Potential Energy Surface

TV Albu, J Espinosa-García, DG Truhlar - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
The H+ CH4 reaction is a prototype for gas-phase polyatomic reactions, just as the H+ H2
reaction1, 2 is a prototype for triatomic reactions, and it is an important reaction in …

First-principles mode-specific reaction dynamics

G Czakó, B Gruber, D Papp, V Tajti, DA Tasi… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Product vibrational distributions in polyatomic species based on quasiclassical trajectory calculations

JC Corchado, J Espinosa-Garcia - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
By including anharmonicity and Coriolis coupling terms, we have improved our earlier quasi-
classical method for vibrational mode analysis in polyatomic species, which was based on a …

An accurate potential energy surface and ring polymer molecular dynamics study of the Cl+ CH 4→ HCl+ CH 3 reaction

Y Liu, J Li - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The reaction Cl+ CH4→ HCl+ CH3, a prototypical bimolecular reaction, has been
established as an important proving ground for studying chemical reaction kinetics and …

[HTML][HTML] Communication: Experimental and theoretical investigations of the effects of the reactant bending excitations in the F+ CHD3 reaction

G Czakó, Q Shuai, K Liu, JM Bowman - The Journal of chemical …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The effects of the reactant bending excitations in the F+ CHD 3 reaction are investigated by
crossed molecular beam experiments and quasiclassical trajectory (QCT) calculations using …

Effects of bending excitation on the reaction dynamics of fluorine atoms with ammonia

L Tian, H Song, M Yang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Vibrational excitation has been established as an efficient way to control the chemical
reaction outcome. Stretching vibration of polyatomic molecules is believed to be efficient to …

Quasi-Classical Trajectory Calculations Analyzing the Reactivity and Dynamics of Asymmetric Stretch Mode Excitations of Methane in the H + CH4 Reaction

C Rangel, JC Corchado… - The Journal of Physical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
An exhaustive dynamics study was performed at two collision energies, 1.52 and 2.20 eV,
analyzing the effects of the asymmetric (ν3) stretch mode excitation in the reactivity and …

Imaging the Effects of Bend-Excitation in the F + CD4(vb=0,1) → DF(v) + CD3(v2=1,2) Reactions

F Wang, K Liu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2013 - ACS Publications
The title reaction was studied over the collisional energy range 0.9–4.0 kcal mol–1, using a
time-sliced velocity-imaging technique in a crossed-beam experiment. Both the integral and …