Benchmark Ab Initio Characterization of the Abstraction and Substitution Pathways of the Cl + CH3CN Reaction

We investigate the reaction pathways of the Cl + CH3CN system: hydrogen abstraction, methyl substitution, hydrogen substitution, and cyanide substitution, leading to HCl + CH2CN, ClCN/CNCl + CH3, ClCH2CN + H, and CH3Cl + CN, respectively. Hydrogen abstraction is exothermic and has a low barrier, whe...

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Szerzők: Tóth Petra
Szűcs Tímea
Czakó Gábor
Dokumentumtípus: Cikk
Megjelent: 2022
Sorozat:JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 126 No. 18
Tárgyszavak:
doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01376

mtmt:32895238
Online Access:http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/24762
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Tartalmi kivonat:We investigate the reaction pathways of the Cl + CH3CN system: hydrogen abstraction, methyl substitution, hydrogen substitution, and cyanide substitution, leading to HCl + CH2CN, ClCN/CNCl + CH3, ClCH2CN + H, and CH3Cl + CN, respectively. Hydrogen abstraction is exothermic and has a low barrier, whereas the other channels are endothermic with high barriers. The latter two can proceed via a Walden inversion or front-side attack mechanism, and the front-side attack barriers are always higher. The C-side methyl substitution has a lower barrier and also a lower endothermicity than the N-side reaction. The computations utilize an accurate composite ab initio approach and the explicitly correlated CCSD(T)-F12b method. The benchmark classical and vibrationally adiabatic energies of the stationary points are determined with the most accurate CCSD(T)-F12b/aug-cc-pVQZ energies adding further contributions of the post-(T) and core correlation, scalar relativistic effects, spin-orbit coupling, and zero-point energy corrections. These contributions are found to be non-negligible to reach subchemical accuracy. ©
Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők:2802-2810
ISSN:1089-5639