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Multiscale Sampling of a Heterogeneous Water/Metal Catalyst Interface using Density Functional Theory and Force-Field Molecular Dynamics
Published on: April 12, 2019
AFIR explorations of transition states of extended unsaturated systems: automatic location of ambimodal transition
Takuma Ito1, Yu Harabuchi2, Satoshi Maeda3
1Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan.
Abstract:
Paths of Diels-Alder reactions between 2-vinylfuran and 3-methoxycarbonylcyclopentadienone were systematically explored by the multicomponent version of the artificial force induced reaction (MC-AFIR) method. In this reaction, the dynamical bifurcation in which a single transition state (TS) relates to two different products has been reported to occur [J. B. Thomas, et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 14544-14555]. In this paper, based on the MC-AFIR method, we propose a procedure to systematically explore so called ambimodal TSs through which the dynamical bifurcation occurs. The present procedure finds candidates of TSs that may cause the dynamical bifurcation from the logs of an automated reaction path search by the MC-AFIR method, without any additional quantum chemical calculations. For this reaction, the MC-AFIR search found 125 unique TSs automatically. Among the 125 TSs, 19 were suggested as candidates, and finally, six including the one reported in the literature were confirmed to cause the dynamical bifurcation. The present procedure would be promising to find TSs involved in the dynamical bifurcation automatically.
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