CASPT2 Study of the Decomposition of Nitrosomethane and Its Tautomerization Reactions in the Ground and Low-Lying Excited States
- 11 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Vol. 71 (3), 983-991
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jo051897r
Abstract
The dissociation reaction of nitrosomethane into methyl and nitric oxide and the tautomerization reactions to formaldehyde oxime, nitrone, and methoxy nitrene have been studied with the second-order multiconfigurational perturbation theory (CASPT2) by the computation of numerical energy gradients. The prevailing reactions in both the ground and the excited states are dissociations. The structures of the ground and excited states are compared with the corresponding complete active space SCF (CAS-SCF) geometries. It is found that changes in the individual bond lengths are rather large (0.01−0.02 Å), while the character and energetics of the CASPT2 optimizations remain similar to the CAS-SCF values.Keywords
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