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Veselinova A, Menéndez M, González-Sánchez L, Zanchet A, Aoiz FJ, Jambrina PG. Dynamical effects on the O( 3P) + D 2 reaction and its impact on the Λ-doublet population. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:6752-6762. [PMID: 38323460 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp05510h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
Abstract
The O(3P) + D2 → OD(2Π) + D reaction presents the peculiarity of taking place on two different potential energy surfaces (PESs) of different symmetry, 3A' and 3A'', which become degenerate for collinear configurations where the saddle-point of the reaction is located. The degeneracy is broken for non-collinear approaches with the energy on the 3A' PES rising more abruptly with the bending angle, making the frequency of this mode higher on the 3A' state. Consequently, the 3A' PES should be less reactive than the 3A'' one. Nevertheless, quantum scattering calculations show that the cross section is higher on the 3A' PES for energies close to the classical reaction threshold and rotationless reactant. It is found that the differences between the reactivity on the two PESs are greater for low values of total angular momentum, where the centrifugal barrier is lower and contribute to the higher population of the Π(A') Λ-doublet states of OD at low collision energies. At high collision energies, the Π(A') Λ-doublet state is also preferentially populated. Analysis of the differential cross sections reveals that the preponderance for the Π(A') Λ-doublet at low energies comes from backward scattering, originating from the reaction on the 3A' PES, while at high energies, it proceeds from a different mechanism that leads to sideways scattering on the 3A'' PES and that populates the Π(A') manifold.
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- A Veselinova
- Departamento de Química-Física, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 37008, Spain.
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- Departamento de Química-Física, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Departamento de Química-Física, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 37008, Spain.
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental (CSIC), 28006, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química-Física, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Departamento de Química-Física, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 37008, Spain.
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Jambrina PG, Zanchet A, Menéndez M, Herrero VJ, Aoiz FJ. Unexpected dynamical effects change the lambda-doublet propensity in the tunneling region for the O( 3P) + H 2 reaction. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:25389-25396. [PMID: 31709441 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04690a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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One of the most relevant features of the O(3P) + H2 reaction is that it occurs on two different potential energy surfaces (PESs) of symmetries A' and A'' that correlate reactants and products. The respective saddle points, which correspond to a collinear arrangement, are the same for both PESs, whilst the barrier height rises more abruptly on the 3A' PES than on the 3A'' PES. Accordingly, the reactivity on the 3A'' PES should be always higher than on the 3A' PES. In this work, we present accurate quantum-scattering calculations showing that this is not always the case for rotationless reactants, where dynamical factors near the reaction threshold cause the 3A' PES to dominate at energies around the barrier. Further calculation of cross sections and Λ-doublet populations has allowed us to establish how the reaction mechanism changes from the deep tunneling regime to hyperthermal energies.
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- P G Jambrina
- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Salamanca, 37003, Salamanca, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Salamanca, 37003, Salamanca, Spain and Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Unidad Asociada CSIC), 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Unidad Asociada CSIC), 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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- Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC c/Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Unidad Asociada CSIC), 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Menéndez M, Jambrina PG, Zanchet A, Verdasco E, Suleimanov YV, Aoiz FJ. New Stress Test for Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics: Rate Coefficients of the O( 3P) + HCl Reaction and Comparison with Quantum Mechanical and Quasiclassical Trajectory Results. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:7920-7931. [PMID: 31461272 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In the past decade, ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) has emerged as a very efficient method to determine thermal rate coefficients for a great variety of chemical reactions. This work presents the application of this methodology to study the O(3P) + HCl reaction, which constitutes a stringent test for any dynamical calculation due to rich resonant structure and other dynamical features. The rate coefficients, calculated on the 3A' and 3A″ potential energy surfaces (PESs) by Ramachandran and Peterson [ J. Chem. Phys. 2003 , 119 , 9590 ], using RPMD and quasiclassical trajectories (QCT) are compared with the existing experimental and the quantum mechanical (QM) results by Xie et al. [ J. Chem. Phys. 2005 122 , 014301 ]. The agreement is very good at T > 600 K, although RPMD underestimates rate coefficients by a factor between 4 and 2 in the 200-500 K interval. The origin of these discrepancies lies in the large contribution from tunneling on the 3A″ PES, which is enhanced by resonances due to quasibound states in the van der Waals wells. Although tunneling is fairly well accounted for by RPMD even below the crossover temperature, the effect of resonances, a long-time effect, is not included in the methodology. At the highest temperatures studied in this work, 2000-3300 K, the RPMD rate coefficients are somewhat larger than the QM ones, but this is shown to be due to limitations in the QM calculations and the RPMD are believed to be more reliable.
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- M Menéndez
- Departamento de Química Física I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas , Universidad Complutense de Madrid , 28040 Madrid , Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas , Universidad de Salamanca , 37008 Salamanca , Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas , Universidad Complutense de Madrid , 28040 Madrid , Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas , Universidad Complutense de Madrid , 28040 Madrid , Spain
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- Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center , Cyprus Institute , 20 Kavafi Strasse , Nicosia 2121 , Cyprus.,Department of Chemical Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Departamento de Química Física I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas , Universidad Complutense de Madrid , 28040 Madrid , Spain
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López-Caballero P, Hauser AW, Pilar de Lara-Castells M. Exploring the Catalytic Properties of Unsupported and TiO 2-Supported Cu 5 Clusters: CO 2 Decomposition to CO and CO 2 Photoactivation. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2019; 123:23064-23074. [PMID: 31598186 PMCID: PMC6777821 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Revised: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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In this work, we explore the decomposition of CO2 on unsupported and TiO2-supported Cu5 clusters via computational modeling, using both finite cluster and periodic slab structures of the rutile TiO2(110) surface. While the energy needed for C=O bond breaking is already significantly reduced upon adsorption onto the unsupported metal catalyst (it drops from 7.8 to 1.3 eV), gas desorption before bond activation is still the inevitable outcome due to the remaining barrier height even at 0 K. However, when the Cu5 cluster itself is supported on TiO2, reactant and product adsorption is strongly enhanced, the barrier for bond breaking is further reduced, and a spontaneous decomposition of the molecule is predicted. This finding is linked to our previous work on charge-transfer processes in the Cu5-TiO2 system triggered by solar photons, since a combination of both phenomena at suitable temperatures would allow for a photoinduced activation of CO2 by sunlight.
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz
University of Technology, Petersgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Instituto de Física
Fundamental (Abinitsim Unit), CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain
- E-mail: . Telephone:+34 915616800 (941026)
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Kłos J, McCrudden G, Brouard M, Perkins T, Seamons SA, Herráez-Aguilar D, Aoiz FJ. Experimental and theoretical studies of the Xe-OH(A/X) quenching system. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:184301. [PMID: 30441911 DOI: 10.1063/1.5051068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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New multi-reference, global ab initio potential energy surfaces (PESs) are reported for the interaction of Xe atoms with OH radicals in their ground X2Π and excited A2Σ+ states, together with the non-adiabatic couplings between them. The 2A' excited potential features a very deep well at the collinear Xe-OH configuration whose minimum corresponds to the avoided crossing with the 1A' PES. It is therefore expected that, as with collisions of Kr + OH(A), electronic quenching will play a major role in the dynamics, competing favorably with rotational energy transfer within the 2A' state. The surfaces and couplings are used in full three-state surface-hopping trajectory calculations, including roto-electronic couplings, to calculate integral cross sections for electronic quenching and collisional removal. Experimental cross sections, measured using Zeeman quantum beat spectroscopy, are also presented here for comparison with these calculations. Unlike similar previous work on the collisions of OH(A) with Kr, the surface-hopping calculations are only able to account qualitatively for the experimentally observed electronic quenching cross sections, with those calculated being around a factor of two smaller than the experimental ones. However, the predicted total depopulation of the initial rovibrational state of OH(A) (quenching plus rotational energy transfer) agrees well with the experimental results. Possible reasons for the discrepancies are discussed in detail.
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- J Kłos
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-2021, USA
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- The Department of Chemistry, The Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- The Department of Chemistry, The Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- The Department of Chemistry, The Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- The Department of Chemistry, The Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Experimental Sciences, Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV), 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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