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Published on: April 16, 2018
Quantum dynamics study of kinetic isotope effects of OD with HBr and DBr
1College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, Shandong, China. dywang@sdnu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We carried out a time-dependent, full dimensional, quantum dynamics wave-packet calculation to study the isotope effects for the OD + HBr and OD + DBr reactions. Reaction cross sections and rate constants for the OD + HBr (k2) and OD + DBr (k4) reactions are compared with the ones of OH + HBr (k1) and OH + DBr (k3). The comparisons of cross sections and rate constants show that OH/OD + HBr almost has the same reactivity, as does OH/OD + DBr. Nonetheless, the OH + HBr reaction still has the largest reactivity, then OD + HBr, OH + DBr, and OD + DBr has the smallest. Furthermore, the rate constants of OD + HBr/DBr reactions have a strong negative temperature dependence below 200 K and a nearly constant temperature dependence above 200 K, agreeing with the experimental results both qualitatively and quantitatively. Our calculated quantum primary kinetic isotope effects (k1/k3 = 1.56 and k2/k4 = 1.80) and secondary kinetic isotope effects (k1/k2 = 1.11 and k3/k4 = 1.29) are temperature independent, confirming the experimental measurements, and are in very good agreement with the experimental data.
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