Issue 2, 2017

QCT dynamics study of OH/OD + GeH4 reactions. The problem of water bending excitation

Abstract

Using a full-dimensional analytical potential energy surface describing the OH/OD + GeH4 hydrogen abstraction reactions (J. Espinosa-Garcia, C. Rangel and J. C. Corchado, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 16941), quasi-classical trajectory calculations were performed at 298 K to simulate the scarce experimental data at this temperature. This system presents wells in the entrance and exit channels, influencing product angular distribution, which is practically isotropic. Moreover, isotopic effects were not observed. It was found that the GeH3 co-product presents little internal energy (11% of the total available energy), although not negligible, and that the water product receives the major part of the available energy, mainly in the newly formed OH bond, while the initial OH/OD reactant bond acts as a spectator mode. These results reproduce the experimental evidence, the larger discrepancy being in the water bending vibrational distribution, which is broader in the experiment. Several factors were analyzed to account for this discrepancy, and it was concluded that the zero-point energy violation per mode is the main, but not the only, cause.

Graphical abstract: QCT dynamics study of OH/OD + GeH4 reactions. The problem of water bending excitation

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Nov 2016
Accepted
12 Dec 2016
First published
12 Dec 2016

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 1580-1589

QCT dynamics study of OH/OD + GeH4 reactions. The problem of water bending excitation

J. Espinosa-Garcia and J. C. Corchado, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 1580 DOI: 10.1039/C6CP08118E

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