JingChun Wang, Juan Carlos San Vicente Veliz, Markus Meuwly
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Abstract
The atom-exchange and atomization dissociation dynamics for the N(4S) + N2(1Σg+) reaction are studied using a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS)-based, global potential energy surface (PES) at the MRCI-F12/aug-cc-pVTZ-F12 level of theory (MRCI, multireference configuration interaction). For the atom exchange reaction (NANB + NC → NANC + NB), computed thermal rates and their temperature dependence from quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) simulations agree to within error bars with the available experiments. Companion QCT simulations using a recently published CASPT2-based PES confirm these findings. For the atomization reaction, leading to three N(4S) atoms, the computed rates from the RKHS-PES overestimate the experimentally reported rates by 1 order of magnitude, whereas those from the permutationally invariant polynomial (PIP)-PES agree favorably, and the T dependence of both computations is consistent with the experiment. These differences can be traced back to the different methods and basis sets used. The lifetime of the metastable N3 molecule is estimated to be ∼200 fs depending on the initial state of the reactants. Finally, neural-network-based exhaustive state-to-distribution models are presented using both PESs for the atom exchange reaction. These models will be instrumental for a broader exploration of the reaction dynamics of air.
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry A is devoted to reporting new and original experimental and theoretical basic research of interest to physical chemists, biophysical chemists, and chemical physicists.