HOCO is the intermediate of the reaction H + CO 2 ® HO + CO. In this study, all the geometries in the collision reaction H + CO 2 were optimized at MP2/6-311++G** level with Gaussian 03 program and a potential energy surface which shows that three unimolecular reactions were in the process of HOCO ® HO + CO. For the three reactions, YL method proposed by L. Yao and S. H. Lin is applied to calculate the anharmonic and harmonic total number of states, the density of states and rate constants. The anharmonic values for rate constants calculated in this study are much lower than harmonic values, which indicate that anharmonic effects are significant and can not be neglected. After convert the experimental lifetime of HOCO into rate constants, the values are close to the calculations in our research, which shows that YL method used in our study is suitable for studying the rate constants of unimolecular reaction.
In this paper, the dynamical properties of the product SrI, which is formed in the reaction Sr + CF3I, were studied by means of the quasi-classical trajectory method based on the extended London–Eyring–Polanyi–Sato potential energy surface. The vibrational distribution, rotational distribution, reaction cross section, and rotational alignment of the product SrI were calculated, and the mechanism of the title reaction has also been discussed. The calculated vibrational and rotational distributions show that their peak values are located at v = 23 and J = 110 at a collision energy of Ecol = 0.83 eV. These results are in good agreement with the results in Stolte’s experiment. And the results obtained in this paper also indicate that the reaction cross section increases with increasing collision energy (from 0.5 to 1.5 eV), whereas the product rotational alignment decreases.
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