Direct ab initio dynamics calculations based on a canonical variational transition-state theory with several multidimensional semiclassical tunneling approximations were carried out to obtain rate constants for the water-assisted tautomerization of formamide. The accuracy of the density functionals, namely, B-LYP, B3-LYP, and BH&H-LYP, were examined. We found that the BH&H-LYP method yields the most accurate transition-state properties when comparing it to ab initio MP2 and QCISD results, whereas B-LYP and B3-LYP methods predict barrier heights too low. Reaction path information was calculated at both the MP2 and nonlocal hybrid BH&H-Ž . LYP levels using the 6-31G d, p basis set. At the BH&H-LYP level, we found that the zero-point energy motion lowers the barrier to tautomerization in the formamide᎐water complex by 3.6 kcalrmol. When tunneling is considered, the activation energy at the BH&H-LYP level at 300 K is 17.1 kcalrmol. This is 3.4 kcalrmol below the zero-pointcorrected barrier and 7.0 kcalrmol below the classical barrier. Excellent agreement between BH&H-LYP and MP2 rate constants further supports the use of BH&H-LYP for rate calculations of large systems.
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