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Coutinho ND, Aquilanti V, Silva VH, et al. Stereodirectional Origin of anti-Arrhenius Kinetics for a Tetraatomic Hydrogen Exchange Reaction: Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics for OH + HBr. J Phys Chem A. 2016;120(27):5408-17doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b03958.
Coutinho, N. D., Aquilanti, V., Silva, V. H., Camargo, A. J., Mundim, K. C., & de Oliveira, H. C. (2016). Stereodirectional Origin of anti-Arrhenius Kinetics for a Tetraatomic Hydrogen Exchange Reaction: Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics for OH + HBr. The journal of physical chemistry. A, 120(27), 5408-17. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.6b03958
Coutinho, Nayara D, et al. "Stereodirectional Origin of anti-Arrhenius Kinetics for a Tetraatomic Hydrogen Exchange Reaction: Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics for OH + HBr." The journal of physical chemistry. A vol. 120,27 (2016): 5408-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.6b03958
Coutinho ND, Aquilanti V, Silva VH, Camargo AJ, Mundim KC, de Oliveira HC. Stereodirectional Origin of anti-Arrhenius Kinetics for a Tetraatomic Hydrogen Exchange Reaction: Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics for OH + HBr. J Phys Chem A. 2016 Jul 14;120(27):5408-17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b03958. Epub 2016 May 26. PMID: 27205872.
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J Phys Chem A. 2016 Jul 14;120(27):5408-17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b03958. Epub 2016 May 26.

Stereodirectional Origin of anti-Arrhenius Kinetics for a Tetraatomic Hydrogen Exchange Reaction: Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics for OH + HBr.

The journal of physical chemistry. A

Nayara D Coutinho, Vincenzo Aquilanti, Valter H C Silva, Ademir J Camargo, Kleber C Mundim, Heibbe C B de Oliveira

Affiliations

  1. Instituto de Química, Universidade de Brasília , 4478, 70904-970 Brasília, Brazil.
  2. Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia , Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy.
  3. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia , 40210 Salvador, Brazil.
  4. Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , 00016 Rome, Italy.
  5. Grupo de Química Teórica e Estrutural de Anápolis, Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Estadual de Goiás , 0459, 75001-970 Anápolis, GO Brazil.

PMID: 27205872 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b03958

Abstract

Among four-atom processes, the reaction OH + HBr → H2O + Br is one of the most studied experimentally: its kinetics has manifested an unusual anti-Arrhenius behavior, namely, a marked decrease of the rate constant as the temperature increases, which has intrigued theoreticians for a long time. Recently, salient features of the potential energy surface have been characterized and most kinetic aspects can be considered as satisfactorily reproduced by classical trajectory simulations. Motivation of the work reported in this paper is the investigation of the stereodirectional dynamics of this reaction as the prominent reason for the peculiar kinetics: we started in a previous Letter ( J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015 , 6 , 1553 - 1558 ) a first-principles Born-Oppenheimer "canonical" molecular dynamics approach. Trajectories are step-by-step generated on a potential energy surface quantum mechanically calculated on-the-fly and are thermostatically equilibrated to correspond to a specific temperature. Here, refinements of the method permitted a major increase of the number of trajectories and the consideration of four temperatures -50, +200, +350, and +500 K, for which the sampling of initial conditions allowed us to characterize the stereodynamical effect. The role is documented of the adjustment of the reactants' mutual orientation to encounter the entrance into the "cone of acceptance" for reactivity. The aperture angle of this cone is dictated by a range of directions of approach compatible with the formation of the specific HOH angle of the product water molecule; and consistently the adjustment is progressively less effective the higher the kinetic energy. Qualitatively, this emerging picture corroborates experiments on this reaction, involving collisions of aligned and oriented molecular beams, and covering a range of energies higher than the thermal ones. The extraction of thermal rate constants from this molecular dynamics approach is discussed and the systematic sampling of the canonical ensemble is indicated as needed for quantitative comparison with the kinetic experiments.

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