MULTIMODE Calculations of Vibrational Spectroscopy and 1d Interconformer Tunneling Dynamics in Glycine Using a
Chen Qu1, Paul L Houston2,3, Riccardo Conte4
1Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States.
Abstract:
A full-dimensional, permutationally invariant polynomial potential energy surface for glycine recently reported (R. Conte et al., J. Chem. Phys. 2020, 153, 244301) is used with the code MULTIMODE to determine the IR absorption spectra for Conformers I and II using a new separable dipole moment function. The calculated spectra agree well with the experimental ones. The full-dimensional nature of the potential allows us also to examine dynamical results, such as tunneling rates. Remarkably, using a one-dimensional path based on the potential energy surface to estimate the tunneling rate from Conformer VI to Conformer I, good agreement is found with the recent experimental measurement. Finally a brief comparison of our potential energy surface with a recently reported sGDML one is made.
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