Ab Initio and Direct Dynamics Studies of the Reaction of Singlet Methylene with Acetylene and the Lifetime of the Cyclopropene Complex
- 12 February 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- Vol. 109 (9), 1890-1896
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp045049w
Abstract
The energetics of the 1CH2 + C2H2 → H + C3H3 reaction are accurately calculated using an extrapolated coupled-cluster/complete basis set (CBS) method based on the cc-pVDZ, cc-pVTZ, and cc-pVQZ basis sets. The reaction enthalpy (0 K) is predicted to be −20.33 kcal/mol. This reaction has no classical barrier in either the entrance or exit channel. However, there are several stable intermediatescyclopropene (c-C3H4), allene (CH2CCH2), and propyne (CH3CCH)along the minimum energy path. These intermediates with zero-point energy corrections lie below the reactants by 87.11 (c-C3H4), 109.69 (CH2CCH2), and 110.78 kcal/mol (CH3CCH). The vibrationally adiabatic ground-state (VAG) barrier height for c-C3H4 isomerization to allene is obtained as 45.2 kcal/mol, and to propyne as 37.2 kcal/mol. In addition, the 1CH2 + C2H2 reaction is investigated utilizing the dual-level “scaling all correlation” (SAC) ab initio method of Truhlar et al., i.e., the UCCSD(SAC)/cc-pVDZ theory. Results show that the reaction occurs via long-lived complexes. The lifetime of the cyclopropene intermediate is obtained as 3.2 ± 0.4 ps. It is found that the intermediate propyne can be formed directly from reactants through the insertion of 1CH2 into a C−H bond of C2H2. However, compared to the major mechanism in which the propyne is produced through a ring-opening of the cyclopropene complex, this reaction pathway is much less favorable. Finally, the theoretical thermal rate constant exhibits a negative temperature dependence, which is in excellent agreement with the previous results. The temperature dependence is consistent with the earlier RRKM results but weaker than the experimental observations at high temperatures.Keywords
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