Recent advances in quantum dynamics of bimolecular reactions

DH Zhang, H Guo - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we survey the latest advances in theoretical understanding of bimolecular
reaction dynamics in the past decade. The remarkable recent progress in this field has been …

Recent advances in quantum scattering calculations on polyatomic bimolecular reactions

B Fu, X Shan, DH Zhang, DC Clary - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
This review surveys quantum scattering calculations on chemical reactions of polyatomic
molecules in the gas phase published in the last ten years. These calculations are useful …

Advances and new challenges to bimolecular reaction dynamics theory

J Li, B Zhao, D Xie, H Guo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dynamics of bimolecular reactions in the gas phase are of foundational importance in
combustion, atmospheric chemistry, interstellar chemistry, and plasma chemistry. These …

Ab initio potential energy surfaces and quantum dynamics for polyatomic bimolecular reactions

B Fu, DH Zhang - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2018 - ACS Publications
There has been great progress in the development of potential energy surfaces (PESs) and
quantum dynamics calculations in the gas phase. The establishment of a fitting procedure …

Probing the activated complex of the F + NH3 reaction via a dipole-bound state

R Zhang, S Yan, H Song, H Guo, C Ning - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Experimental characterization of the transition state poses a significant challenge due to its
fleeting nature. Negative ion photodetachment offers a unique tool for probing transition …

Feshbach resonances in the exit channel of the F + CH3OH → HF + CH3O reaction observed using transition-state spectroscopy

ML Weichman, JA DeVine, MC Babin, J Li, L Guo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The transition state governs how chemical bonds form and cleave during a chemical
reaction and its direct characterization is a long-standing challenge in physical chemistry …

From ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces to State-Resolved Reactivities: X + H2O ↔ HX + OH [X = F, Cl, and O(3P)] Reactions

J Li, B Jiang, H Song, J Ma, B Zhao… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We survey the recent advances in theoretical understanding of quantum state resolved
dynamics, using the title reactions as examples. It is shown that the progress was made …

Tomography of Feshbach resonance states

B Margulis, KP Horn, DM Reich, M Upadhyay, N Kahn… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Feshbach resonances are fundamental to interparticle interactions and become particularly
important in cold collisions with atoms, ions, and molecules. In this work, we present the …

Extremely short-lived reaction resonances in Cl + HD (v = 1) → DCl + H due to chemical bond softening

T Yang, J Chen, L Huang, T Wang, C Xiao, Z Sun… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The Cl+ H2 reaction is an important benchmark system in the study of chemical reaction
dynamics that has always appeared to proceed via a direct abstraction mechanism, with no …

Control of chemical reactivity by transition-state and beyond

H Guo, K Liu - Chemical science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
It has been long established that the transition state for an activated reaction controls the
overall reactivity, serving as the bottleneck for reaction flux. However, the role of the …