Volume 119, 2002

A direct transition state theory based analysis of the branching in NH2 + NO

Abstract

A combination of high-level quantum-chemical simulations and sophisticated transition state theory analyses is employed in a study of the temperature dependence of the N2H + OH → HNNOH recombination reaction. The implications for the branching between N2H + OH and N2 + H2O in the NH2 + NO reaction are also explored. The transition state partition function for the N2H + OH recombination reaction is evaluated with a direct implementation of variable reaction coordinate (VRC) transition state theory (TST). The orientation dependent interaction energies are directly determined at the CAS + 1 + 2/cc-pvdz level. Corrections for basis set limitations are obtained [italic v (to differentiate from Times ital nu)]ia calculations along the cis and trans minimum energy paths employing an ∽aug-pvtz basis set. The calculated rate constant for the N2H + OH → HNNOH recombination is found to decrease significantly with increasing temperature, in agreement with the predictions of our earlier theoretical study. Conventional transition state theory analyses, employing new coupled cluster estimates for the vibrational frequencies and energies at the saddlepoints along the NH2 + NO reaction pathway, are coupled with the VRC-TST analyses for the N2H + OH channels to provide estimates for the branching in the NH2 + NO reaction. Modest variations in the exothermicity of the reaction (1–2 kcal mol−1), and in a few of the saddlepoint energies (2–4 kcal mol−1), yield TST based predictions for the branching fraction that are in satisfactory agreement with related experimental results. The unmodified results are in reasonable agreement for higher temperatures, but predict too low a branching ratio near room temperature, as well as too steep an initial rise.

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Mar 2001
First published
11 Oct 2001

Faraday Discuss., 2002,119, 207-222

A direct transition state theory based analysis of the branching in NH2 + NO

D. Fang, L. B. Harding, S. J. Klippenstein and J. A. Miller, Faraday Discuss., 2002, 119, 207 DOI: 10.1039/B102235K

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