Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 130, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3132594
Keywords
atom-molecule reactions; chemical exchanges; hydrogen neutral atoms; isotope effects; organic compounds; potential energy surfaces; reaction kinetics theory; reaction rate constants; rotational states; vibrational states
Funding
- Junta de Extremadura, Spain [PRI07A009]
- Swedish Research Council
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On a new potential energy surface (PES-2008) developed by our group (preceding paper), we performed an extensive kinetics study using variational transition-state theory with semiclassical transmission coefficients over a wide temperature range of 250-2000 K and a dynamics study using quasiclassical trajectory (QCT) and quantum-mechanical (QM) calculations at collision energies between 0.7 and 2.0 eV for the title reaction and isotopically substituted versions. Kinetically, the H+CH4 forward and reverse thermal rate constants reproduce the available experimental data, with a small curvature of the Arrhenius plot indicating the role of tunneling in this hydrogen abstraction reaction. Five sets of kinetic isotope effects are also calculated. In general, they reproduce the experimental information. Dynamically, we focused on the H+CD4 reaction because there are more experimental studies for comparison. Most of the available energy appears as product translational energy (55%-68%), with the HD product being vibrationally cold (v(')=0,1) in agreement with experiment, although rotationally hotter than experiment. The reaction cross section is practically negligible at 0.7 eV and still small at 1.5 eV, reproducing the experimental evidence, although our values are smaller. The product angular distribution is analyzed using QCT and QM methods. While at low energies (0.7 eV) both the QCT and the QM calculations yield forward scattered CD3 product, i.e., a rebound mechanism, at high energy (1.2 eV) only the QM calculations reproduce the experiment. The agreement with this wide variety of kinetic and dynamic experimental data (always qualitative and in some cases quantitative) shows the capacity of the PES-2008 surface to describe the reaction system.
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