Potential Energy Surface for Large Barrierless Reaction Systems: Application to the Kinetic Calculations of the Dissociation of Alkanes and the Reverse Recombination Reactions

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. a
Qian YaoXiang-Yuan Li

Abstract

The isodesmic reaction method is applied to calculate the potential energy surface (PES) along the reaction coordinates and the rate constants of the barrierless reactions for unimolecular dissociation reactions of alkanes to form two alkyl radicals and their reverse recombination reactions. The reaction class is divided into 10 subclasses depending upon the type of carbon atoms in the reaction centers. A correction scheme based on isodesmic reaction theory is proposed to correct the PESs at UB3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) level. To validate the accuracy of this scheme, a comparison of the PESs at B3LYP level and the corrected PESs with the PESs at CASPT2/aug-cc-pVTZ level is performed for 13 representative reactions, and it is found that the deviations of the PESs at B3LYP level are up to 35.18 kcal/mol and are reduced to within 2 kcal/mol after correction, indicating that the PESs for barrierless reactions in a subclass can be calculated meaningfully accurately at a low level of ab initio method using our correction scheme. High-pressure limit rate constants and pressure dependent rate constants of these reactions are calculated based on their corrected PESs and the results show the pressure dependence of the rate constants cannot be igno...Continue Reading

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