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Potential energy surface and quantum dynamics study of rovibrational states for HO(3) (X (2)A'')
Bastiaan J Braams1, Hua-Gen Yu
1Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. braams@maths.emory.edu
Abstract:
An analytic potential energy surface has been constructed by fitting to about 28 thousand energy points for the electronic ground-state (X (2)A'') of HO(3). The energy points are calculated using a hybrid density functional HCTH and a large basis set aug-cc-pVTZ, i.e., a HCTH/aug-cc-pVTZ density functional theory (DFT) method. The DFT calculations show that the trans-HO(3) isomer is the global minimum with a potential well depth of 9.94 kcal mol(-1) with respect to the OH + O(2) asymptote. The equilibrium geometry of the cis-HO(3) conformer is located 1.08 kcal mol(-1) above that of the trans-HO(3) one with an isomerization barrier of 2.41 kcal mol(-1) from trans- to cis-HO(3). By using this surface, a rigorous quantum dynamics (QD) study has been carried out for computing the rovibrational energy levels of HO(3). The calculated results determine a dissociation energy of 6.15 kcal mol(-1), which is in excellent agreement with the experimental value of Lester et al. [J. Phys. Chem. A, 2007, 111, 4727.].
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