H atom and heavy atom tunneling processes in tropolone
H atom and heavy atom tunneling processes in tropolone
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托酚酮中氢原子和重原子的隧道过程
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2000
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R. L. Redington
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R. L. Redington
The minimum energy pathway leading between the tautomers of tropolone was calculated using molecular orbital (MO) methods. This, with various 1D and 2D cuts of the potential energy surface (PES) topography, reveals the {tunneling skeleton}/{tunneling H atom} mechanism for tautomerization. In the zero-point states the H atom is localized to one of the O atoms until the tropolone skeleton becomes sufficiently vibrationally displaced towards C2v configurations that near-equal double-minimum potential energy functions (PEFs) arise for the H atom vibration. The resulting delocalization of the H atom between the two O atom sites allows the skeletal displacement to proceed through the barrier and the tautomerization process to be completed. The v1 (OH stretching) energies in quantum states N1 are strongly dependent on the skeletal geometry and, adiabatically separated from the slow v22 vibration, they contribute to markedly different 1D effective potential energy functions V22eff[N1] for v22. V22eff[N1=0] is a n...