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 …

Relative efficacy of vibrational vs. translational excitation in promoting atom-diatom reactivity: Rigorous examination of Polanyi's rules and proposition of sudden vector …

B Jiang, H Guo - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
To provide a systematic and rigorous re-examination of the well-known Polanyi's rules,
excitation functions of several A+ BC (v= 0, 1) reactions are determined using the …

Mode Selectivity for a “Central” Barrier Reaction: Eight-Dimensional Quantum Studies of the O(3P) + CH4 → OH + CH3 Reaction on an Ab Initio Potential Energy …

R Liu, M Yang, G Czakó, JM Bowman… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The dynamics of a combustion reaction, namely, O (3P)+ CH4→ OH+ CH3, is investigated
with an eight-dimensional quantum model that includes representatives of all vibrational …

Reactant Vibrational Excitations Are More Effective than Translational Energy in Promoting an Early-Barrier Reaction F + H2O → HF + OH

J Li, B Jiang, H Guo - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013 - ACS Publications
The exothermic F+ H2O→ HF+ OH reaction has a decidedly “early” or “reactant-like” barrier.
According to a naïve interpretation of the Polanyi's rules, translational energy would be …

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 …

Quantum dynamics study of the Cl+ CH 4→ HCl+ CH 3 reaction: reactive resonance, vibrational excitation reactivity, and rate constants

F Meng, W Yan, D Wang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A quantum reactive dynamics, six-degrees-of-freedom, time-dependent wavepacket
propagation method is applied to study the Cl+ CH4→ HCl+ CH3 reaction on the newly …

An eight-dimensional quantum dynamics study of the Cl+ CH4→ HCl+ CH3 reaction

N Liu, M Yang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, the later-barrier reaction Cl+ CH 4→ HCl+ CH 3 is investigated with an eight-
dimensional quantum dynamics method [R. Liu et al., J. Chem. Phys. 137, 174113 (2012)] …

Mode Specificity, Bond Selectivity, and Product Energy Disposal in X + CH4/CHD3 (X=H, F, O(3P), Cl, and OH) Hydrogen Abstraction Reactions: Perspective from …

B Jiang, H Guo - Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Reactions between methane and various radicals have become the workhorse in our
understanding of mode specificity and bond selectivity in bimolecular reactions. In this work …

Potential energy surface, kinetics, and dynamics study of the Cl+ CH4→ HCl+ CH3 reaction

C Rangel, M Navarrete, JC Corchado… - The Journal of …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
A modified and recalibrated potential energy surface for the gas-phase Cl+ CH 4→ H Cl+
CH 3 reaction is reported and tested. It is completely symmetric with respect to the …

[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 …