Abstract
The abstraction and addition reactions of H with trans-N 2H 2 are studied by high-level ab initio methods and density functional theory. Rate constants were calculated for these two reactions by multistructural variational transition state theory with multidimensional tunneling and including torsional anharmonicity by the multistructural torsion method. Rate constants of the abstraction reaction show large variational effects, that is, the variational transition state yields a smaller rate constant than the conventional transition state; this results from the fact that the variational transition state has a higher zero-point vibrational energy than the conventional transition state. The addition reaction has a classical barrier height that is about 1 kcalmol lower than that of the abstraction reaction, but the addition rates are lower than the abstraction rates due to vibrational adiabaticity. The calculated branching ratio of abstraction to addition is 3.5 at 200 K and decreases to 1.2 at 1000 K and 1.06 at 1500 K.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 184310 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
Volume | 136 |
Issue number | 18 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 14 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We acknowledge the research and fellowship support of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). This work was also supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Grant No. DE-FG02-86ER13579.