Barrier for the H2CO --> H2+ CO reaction: A discrepancy between high-level electronic structure calculations and experiment
Barrier for the H2CO --> H2+ CO reaction: A discrepancy between high-level electronic structure calculations and experiment
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H2CO 的势垒 --> H2 CO 反应:高级电子结构计算与实验之间的差异
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2000
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B. Garrett
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D. Feller;M. Dupuis;B. Garrett
The unimolecular dissociation of formaldehyde to H2+CO was studied using extended basis set calculations and a variety of medium-to-high accuracy correlation recovery techniques. These included second and fourth order perturbation theory, multireference configuration interaction wave functions, coupled cluster theory with perturbative triples and full iterative triples, and estimated full configuration interaction wave functions. The intrinsic error of the electronic structure methods was assessed by extrapolating total energies to the complete basis set limit. Our best estimate of the barrier height, including zero point vibrational effects, is 81.9±0.3 kcal/mol, almost 3 kcal/mol larger than the experimental value of 79.2±0.8 kcal/mol. This estimate includes corrections for the effects of finite basis set truncation (which is negligible at the quintuple zeta level), higher order correlation recovery, core/valence correlation, and scalar relativistic effects. Using the same theoretical approach, we estim...