scholarly journals Simple position and orientation preconditioning scheme for minimum energy path calculations

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 761-770
Author(s):  
Christopher Robertson ◽  
Scott Habershon
2009 ◽  
Vol 391 (5) ◽  
pp. 894-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Venditti ◽  
Lawrence Clos ◽  
Neri Niccolai ◽  
Samuel E. Butcher

Author(s):  
Maikel Ballester

Rate coefficients of bi-molecular chemical reactions are fundamental for kinetic models. The rate coefficient dependence on temperature is commonly extracted from the analyses of the reaction minimum energy path. However, a full dimension study of the same reaction may suggest a different asymptotic low-temperature limit in the rate constant than the obtained from the energetic profile.


Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 336 (6089) ◽  
pp. 1687-1690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Jankunas ◽  
Richard N. Zare ◽  
Foudhil Bouakline ◽  
Stuart C. Althorpe ◽  
Diego Herráez-Aguilar ◽  
...  

When a hydrogen (H) atom approaches a deuterium (D2) molecule, the minimum-energy path is for the three nuclei to line up. Consequently, nearly collinear collisions cause HD reaction products to be backscattered with low rotational excitation, whereas more glancing collisions yield sideways-scattered HD products with higher rotational excitation. Here we report that measured cross sections for the H + D2 → HD(v′ = 4, j′) + D reaction at a collision energy of 1.97 electron volts contradict this behavior. The anomalous angular distributions match closely fully quantum mechanical calculations, and for the most part quasiclassical trajectory calculations. As the energy available in product recoil is reduced, a rotational barrier to reaction cuts off contributions from glancing collisions, causing high-j′ HD products to become backward scattered.


2019 ◽  
Vol 150 (9) ◽  
pp. 094109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stela Makri ◽  
Christoph Ortner ◽  
James R. Kermode

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