dc.creator Hinkle, Charlotte E. en_US dc.creator McCoy, Anne B. en_US dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-29T12:38:09Z dc.date.available 2009-07-29T12:38:09Z dc.date.issued 2009 en_US dc.identifier 2009-WF-11 en_US dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1811/38003 dc.description Z. Jin, B. J. Braams, J. M. Bowman, J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 1569 (2006).A. B. McCoy, B. J. Braams, A. Brown, X. Huang., Z. Jin, J. M. Bowman, J. Phys. Chem. A 108, 4991 (2004). en_US dc.description Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus; OH 43210 en_US dc.description.abstract Protonated methane has long been of interest to astrochemists due to its presumed importance as a reaction intermediate in the reaction involving CH$_{3}^{+}$ + HD within the interstellar medium. Within the interstellar medium there is a nonstatistical H/D isotopic abundance observed for isotopologues of CH$_{3}^{+}$. While classical trajectory calculations have been performed dissociating CH$_{5}^{+}$ and CH$_{4}$D$^{+}$ into the fragments, CH$_{3}^{+}$ + H$_{2}$, CH$_{2}$D$^{+}$ + H$_{2}$ and CH$_{3}^{+}$ + HD{}, these calculations do not account for a large portion of the available energy being tied up in the zero point energy of the reactants and products. Earlier work in our group on CH$_{2}$D$_{3}^{+}${} showed the deuterium atoms were localized to the CH$_{3}^{+}$ group, rather than the H$_{2}$ moiety. Classical calculations fail to account for this observed localization, instead showing full delocalization of D between both CH$_{3}^{+}$ and H$_{2}$. With a quantum mechanical treatment, the energetics and wave functions will depend on which asymptotic channel is chosen, while in the classical treatment, these channels will be energetically equivalent. By performing Diffusion Monte Carlo simulations in Jacobi coordinates, we can constrain the distance between the CH$_{3}^{+}$ and H$_2$ subunits. Using this technique we have evaluated a one-dimensional reaction potential that includes the full anharmonic zero point energy in the remaining degrees of freedom and can determine how energetics of this reaction change upon partial deuteration of CH$_{3}^{+}$ or H$_{2}$. We have also evaluated the probability amplitude associated with the wave functions that are obtained in the DMC simulations at various values of the reaction coordinate. en_US dc.language.iso English en_US dc.publisher Ohio State University en_US dc.title PROBING THE REACTION PATH OF CH$_{3}^{+}$ + H$_{2}$ $\rightarrow$ CH$_{5}^{+}$ $\rightarrow$ CH$_{3}^{+}$ + H$_{2}$ AND ISOTOPOLOGUES en_US dc.type Article en_US
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