Bound dissociation energy

ET Denisov. Bound Dissociation Energies, Rate Constants, Activation Energies and Enthalpies of Reactions in Handbook of Antioxidants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995, p 605. 

Another area of research ia laser photochemistry is the dissociation of molecular species by absorption of many photons (105). The dissociation energy of many molecules is around 4.8 x 10 J (3 eV). If one uses an iafrared laser with a photon energy around 1.6 x 10 ° J (0.1 eV), about 30 photons would have to be absorbed to produce dissociation (Eig. 17). The curve shows the molecular binding energy for a polyatomic molecule as a function of interatomic distance. The horizontal lines iadicate bound excited states of the molecule. These are the vibrational states of the molecule. Eor... 

Next, we discuss the J = 0 calculations of bound and pseudobound vibrational states reported elsewhere [12] for Li3 in its first-excited electronic doublet state. A total of 1944 (1675), 1787 (1732), and 2349 (2387) vibrational states of A, Ai, and E symmetries have been computed without (with) consideration of the GP effect up to the Li2(63 X)u) +Li dissociation threshold of 0.0422 eV. Figure 9 shows the energy levels that have been calculated without consideration of the GP effect up to the dissociation threshold of the lower surface, 1.0560eV, in a total of 41, 16, and 51 levels of A], A2, and E symmetries. Note that they are genuine bound states. On the other hand, the cone states above the dissociation energy of the lower surface are embedded in a continuum, and hence appear as resonances in scattering experiments or long-lived complexes in unimolecular decay experiments. They are therefore pseudobound states or resonance states if the full two-state nonadiabatic problem is considered. The lowest levels of A, A2, and E symmetries lie at —1.4282,... 

In this respect XeF2 is similar to molecular fluorine. The relatively low oxidizing ability and reactivity ofXeF2 in the same type of chemical reactions is explained by its greater dissociation energy. The activation energy of the dissociation (XeF2-> XeF + F) is 190-210 kJ/mol. The XeF radicals are very weakly bound (EXcF = 58-80 kJ/mol) and can be an effective source ofF atoms.3... 

Figure 7.2 Photon absorption leading to a bound excited state with energy greater than the bond dissociation energy, resulting in bond cleavage...

For an explicit examination of the basis set superposition error on weakly bound cationic structures at various theoretical levels, we performed full counterpoise calculations as outlined in Section IIB (Table 5). Table 5 demonstrates nicely that the magnitude of the BSSE is indirectly proportional to the size of the basis set at TZ2P, the error is on the average only about a quarter of that at DZP. This effect becomes more apparent with increased incorporation of electron correlation. At our best theoretical level, the BSSE amounts to only 0.1 kcal mol" (Table 5), which is insignificant for the dissociation energy of about 1.5 kcal mol". ... 

The y>Ee(R) are the radial free-state wavefunctions (see Chapter 5 for details). The free state energies E are positive and the bound state energies E(v,S) are negative v and ( are vibrational and rotational dimer quantum numbers t is also the angular momentum quantum number of the fth partial wave. The g( are nuclear weights. We will occasionally refer to a third partition sum, that of pre-dissociating (sometimes called metastable ) dimer states,... 

The HO-H bond dissociation energy (BDE) is 499 kj mol-1, while the C-H bonds in saturated hydrocarbons are much weaker (BDE = 376-410 kj mol-1 Berkowitz et al. 1994 for a compilation, see Chap. 6). Thus, there is a considerable driving force for H-abstraction reactions by -OH. On the other hand, vinylic hydrogens are relatively tightly bound, and an addition to the C-C double bond is always favored over an H-abstraction of vinylic or aromatic hydrogens. Hence, in the case of ethene, no vinylic radicals are formed (Soylemez and von Sonntag 1980), and with benzene and its derivatives the formation of phenyl-type radicals has never been conclusively established. 

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