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We describe an analytic representation of the ArH2 potential energy surface which well reproduces the results of extensive ab initio electronic structure calculations. We also give an empirical modification of the function designed to improve agreement with experimental estimates of the van der Waals minimum. The analytic representation smoothly interpolates between the H+H and strong bonding H2 limits. In the fitting process, an accurate reproduction of regions of the potential expected to be important for high temperature (∼3000 K) collision processes is emphasized. Overall, the analytic representation well reproduces the anisotropy and H2 bond length dependence of the input data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A previous calculation for H+N2 [Walch, Duchovic, and Rohlfing, J. Chem. Phys. 90, 3230 (1989)] focused on the minimum energy path (MEP) region of the potential energy surface and on estimates of the lifetime of the HN2 species. In this paper, we report energies computed at geometries selected to permit a global representation of the potential energy surface (PES). As in the previous work, the calculations were performed using the complete active space self-consistent field/externally contracted configuration interaction (CASSCF/CCI) method. The surface was characterized using the same basis set as in the previous paper except that an improved contraction of the H s basis is used. Calculations with a larger basis set were carried out along an approximate MEP obtained with the smaller basis set. The new PES exhibits a sharp curvature, which was not present in the previous calculations, and has a slightly narrower and smaller barrier to dissociation. Saddle points for H atom exchange via collinear and T-shaped HN2 complexes are also reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The results of complete active space SCF/multireference contracted CI(CASSCF/CCI) calculations with large atomic natural orbital (ANO) basis sets are presented for the H + NO region of the lowest three potential surfaces of HNO (1A’, 3A‘, and 1A‘). The calculations focus on the minimum energy path for H atom addition to the N end of NO and on the equilibrium geometry region of HNO and HON. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The convergence of the barrier height for the O+H2→OH+H reaction has been studied as a function of the size of the active space and basis set completeness. The barrier height is rapidly convergent with respect to expansion of the active space. Addition of 2p→2p’ correlation terms to the active space lowers the barrier to the O+H2 reaction by about 2.0 kcal/mol, but addition of 3d and other terms has little additional effect. Multireference singles and doubles contracted CI plus Davidson’s correction calculations using a [5s5p3d2f1g/4s3p2d1f] basis set with a 5σ2π active space lead to a barrier height of 12.7 kcal/mol. Including an estimate of the CI contraction error and basis set superposition error leads to 12.4 kcal/mol as the best estimate of the barrier height. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The energies for the interaction of a hydrogen atom with a nitrogen molecule have been calculated for large separation distances using a complete-active-space self-consistent-field/externally contracted configuration interaction method. H–N2 transport cross sections and collision integrals have been calculated using sudden approximations and a semiclassical description of the scattering. The values of these quantities are found to be close to the corresponding values determined from the average (isotropic) potential energy. The collision integrals are applied to determine diffusion and viscosity coefficients; the theoretical diffusion agrees well with the measured data available from experiments at low temperatures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present global ab initio potential energy surfaces for the three lowest energy 1A’, 3A‘, and 1A‘ surfaces of HNO. These surfaces are the lowest three states of the HNO and HON molecules, and they correlate to the ground electronic states of H+NO and O+NH. In addition, the 3A‘ surface correlates to the ground state of N+OH. The surfaces are based on approximately 800 ab initio calculations that were done using an internally contracted multireference configuration interaction calculation with a large basis set. The ab initio points were fit to a combination of Morse and spline functions in each of the three possible Jacobi coordinates, and the resulting splines were smoothly switched together, and combined with other functions to yield globally defined potentials. Properties of the HNO and HON minima and dissociation energies on these potentials are in good agreement with previous high quality calculations. The N+OH and O+NH reactions are found to have no barriers to formation of HON or HNO, respectively. Isomerization of HON to HNO involves barriers that are higher than the HON dissociation barrier on the singlet surfaces but not on the triplet surface. © 1995 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a quasiclassical trajectory study of the collisions which occur on the 1A’, 3A‘, and 1A‘ potential surfaces of HNO using recently developed global potential surfaces that were derived from ab initio calculations. Each of these surfaces was assumed to be uncoupled from the other surfaces for the purposes of the calculations, and the appropriate statistical average of electronic states for each process was calculated. For N+OH and O+NH, we specifically studied reactive collisions which give H+NO as products, and we also studied the production of N+OH from O+NH. Overall rate constants calculated for either N+OH or O+NH are in good agreement with most experiments, and in addition, the product NO vibrational distribution from the N+OH reaction is in good correspondence with recent measurements, revealing modest excitation that is close to what would be expected from a statistical distribution. For O+NH, the calculated NO vibrational distributions are much hotter than statistical, in apparent disagreement with recent measurements. However, a careful analysis of limitations on the measurements due to spectral interference and to collisional relaxation indicates that it is not possible to say if theory and experiment are at odds for this reaction. We find a significant cross section for O+NH→N+OH on the 3A‘ surface (roughly 5% of the total reactive cross section, independent of energy), and this leads to rate constants at low temperatures that are orders of magnitude higher at low temperature than estimates made earlier based on H atom abstraction on the 5Π surface.The mechanism of this reaction is found to involve three steps: addition to form HNO, isomerization to HON, and dissociation to produce N+OH. We have also studied nonreactive vibrational and rotational excitation in H+NO collisions, and we obtain distributions that are somewhat closer to experiment than obtained in previous theoretical studies, although... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]