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Fully ab initio potential energy surface for ClH₂ reactive system

, , and . Sci. China, Ser. B Chem., 43 (4): 396–404 (2000)
DOI: 10.1007/BF02969445

Abstract

An ab initio analytical potential energy surface called BW3 for the ClH₂ reactive system is presented. The fit of this surface is based on about 1 200 ab initio energy points, computed with multi-reference configuration interaction(MRCI) and scaling external correlation (SEC) method and a very large basis set. The precision in the fit is very high. The BW3 surface could reproduce correctly the dissociation energy of H-2 and HCl, and the endothermicity of the Cl + H-2 abstraction reaction. For the Cl + H-2 abstraction reaction, the saddle point of BW3 lies in collinear geometries, and the barrier height is 32.84 kJ/mol; for the H + ClH exchange reaction, the barrier of BW3 is also linear, with a height of 77.40 kJ/mol.

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