Biofuel Combustion. Energetics and Kinetics of Hydrogen Abstraction from Carbon-1 in n-Butanol by the Hydroperoxyl Radical Calculated by Coupled Cluster and Density Functional Theories and Mult

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• 作者：I. M. Alecu ; Jingjing Zheng ; Ewa Papajak ; Tao Yu ; Donald G. Truhlar
• 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：December 20, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：116
• 期：50
• 页码：12206-12213
• 全文大小：330K
• 年卷期：v.116,no.50(December 20, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5215

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Multistructural canonical variational transition-state theory with small-curvature multidimensional tunneling (MS-CVT/SCT) is employed to calculate thermal rate constants for hydrogen-atom abstraction from carbon-1 of n-butanol by the hydroperoxyl radical over the temperature range 250鈥?000 K. The M08-SO hybrid meta-GGA density functional was validated against CCSD(T)-F12a explicitly correlated wave function calculations with the jul-cc-pVTZ basis set. It was then used to compute the properties of all stationary points and the energies and Hessians of a few nonstationary points along the reaction path, which were then used to generate a potential energy surface by the multiconfiguration Shepard interpolation (MCSI) method. The internal rotations in the transition state for this reaction (like those in the reactant alcohol) are strongly coupled to each other and generate multiple stable conformations, which make important contributions to the partition functions. It is shown that neglecting to account for the multiple-structure effects and torsional potential anharmonicity effects that arise from the torsional modes would lead to order-of-magnitude errors in the calculated rate constants at temperatures of interest in combustion.