Probing the Reaction Path of CH_{3}^{+} + H_{2} → CH_{5}^{+} → CH_{3}^{+} + H_{2} and Isotopologues

Details Probing the Reaction Path of CH_{3}^{+} + H_{2} → CH_{5}^{+} → CH_{3}^{+} + H_{2} and Isotopologues Probing the Reaction Path of CH_{3}^{+} + H_{2} → CH_{5}^{+} → CH_{3}^{+} + H_{2} and Isotopologues

Jun 2009

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"International Symposium On Molecular Spectroscopy, 64th Meeting, Held 22-26 June, 2009 at Ohio State University. http://molspec

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Protonated methane has long been of interest to astrochemists due to its presumed importance as a reaction intermediate in the reaction involving CH_{3}^{+} + HD within the interstellar medium. Within the interstellar medium there is a nonstatistical H/D isotopic abundance observed for isotopologues of CH_{3}^{+}. While classical trajectory calculations have been performed dissociating CH_{5}^{+} and CH_{4}D^{+} into the fragments, CH_{3}^{+} + H_{2}, CH_{2}D^{+} + H_{2} and CH_{3}^{+} + HD, these calculations do not account for a large portion of the available energy being tied up in the zero point energy of the reactants and products. Earlier work in our group on CH_{2}D_{3}^{+} showed the deuterium atoms were localized to the CH_{3}^{+} group, rather than the H_{2} moiety. Classical calculations fail to account for this observed localization, instead showing full delocalization of D between both CH_{3}^{+} and H_{2}. With a quantum mechanical treatment, the energetics and wave functions will depend on which asymptotic channel is chosen, while in the classical treatment, these channels will be energetically equivalent. By performing Diffusion Monte Carlo simulations in Jacobi coordinates, we can constrain the distance between the CH_{3}^{+} and H_2 subunits. Using this technique we have evaluated a one-dimensional reaction potential that includes the full anharmonic zero point energy in the remaining degrees of freedom and can determine how energetics of this reaction change upon partial deuteration of CH_{3}^{+} or H_{2}. We have also evaluated the probability amplitude associated with the wave functions that are obtained in the DMC simulations at various values of the reaction coordinate.
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