Mode‐selective photoisomerization in 5‐hydroxytropolone. II. Theory
Mode‐selective photoisomerization in 5‐hydroxytropolone. II. Theory
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5-羟基托酚酮 II 的模式选择性光异构化。
DOI:
10.1063/1.469251
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发表时间:
1995
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K. Jordan
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作者:
John J Nash;T. Zwier;K. Jordan
Ab initio calculations are used to explore the ground‐state potential energy surface for the syn–anti photoisomerization reaction of 5‐hydroxytropolone (5‐HOTrOH). Two reaction coordinates are identified, involving 2‐OH tunneling and 5‐OH torsion. Hartree–Fock (HF) and perturbation theory (at the MP2 level) have been used to calculate the stationary points on the two‐dimensional surface associated with these coordinates. Similar calculations on the parent molecule tropolone are carried out for comparison. As observed in previous studies, the 2‐OH tunneling barrier drops dramatically at the MP2 level which includes electron correlation. Vibrational frequency calculations are carried out for both tropolone and 5‐HOTrOH at the HF/6‐31G** and MP2/6‐31G** levels in order to correlate the modes with those observed experimentally. A method is introduced for evaluating which normal coordinates should be most strongly coupled to a given reaction coordinate. Normalized, mass‐weighted intrinsic and direct reaction c...