Potential-energy surfaces Empirical

The Ar-HCl and Ar-HF complexes became prototypes for the study of intennolecular forces. Holmgren et al [30] produced an empirical potential energy surface for Ar-HCl fitted to the microwave and radiofrequency spectra,... 

Empirical methods are of two types those that permit potential energy surfaces to be calculated and those that only allow activation energies to be estimated. Laidler has reviewed these. A typical approach is to establish a relationship between experimental activation energies and some other quantity, such as heats of reaction, and then to use this correlation to predict additional activation energies. In Section 5.3 we will encounter a different type of empirical potential energy surface. 

A58, 727 (2002). Quantum Calculation of Highly Excited Vibrational Energy Levels of CS2(X) on a New Empirical Potential Energy Surface and Semiclassical Analysis of 1 2 Fermi Resonances. 

Fig. 6.4 Plot of reaction probability vs. initial translational energy for the H + HH = HH + H reaction for a certain empirical potential energy surface (the Porter-Karplus surface). Curves (reading down) are shown for the path shown as PP in Fig. 6.3a. (marked Marcus-Coltrin), the exact quantum mechanical result for the Porter-Karplus surface (marked Exact QM), the usual TST result calculated for the MEP, QQ (Fig. 6.3a) (The data are from Marcus, R. A. and Coltrin, M. E., J. Chem. Phys. 67, 2609 (1977))...

There have been a number of interesting trajectory studies of organic reactions that have used empirical potential energy surfaces. CH3NC —CH3CN is the first example. The second example is... 

A typical empirical potential energy surface is the sum of all the interactions described above. It can be written schematically in the form... 

Empirical Potential Energy Surface and Determination of Tfansition-State Structure for the Spontaneous Hydrolysis of Axial Tetrahydropyranyl Acetals... 

Barton and Howard used their calculation as part of their modelling effort to obtain an empirical potential energy surface. They treated the HF bonds as rigid and obtained the tunneling effect implicitly by diagonalizing a four-dimensional Hamiltonian. 

The general complementarity of sensitivities in cw and femtosecond spectroscopy has been anticipated by Zewail [66] and it is verified for the Naa molecule excited to its electronic B state (see Sect. 3.2.4). This system has already been studied in great detail by various experimental and theoretical techniques such as cw two-photon ionization spectroscopy [68-70], femtosecond pump probe spectroscopy at high intensities [29, 30, 71], quantum ab initio studies [72-74], two-dimensional simulations of the pseudorot at ional progressions in the cw absorption spectra [75-78], and, finally, three-dimensional simulations by means of empirical potential-energy surfaces (PESs) [79, 80]. 

Process 1 proceeds through close (ca. 1 A) repulsive encounters that favor the colllnear FDD critical configuration. Available ab initio (U) and semi-empirical ( ) potential energy surfaces (EESj also favor direct coUinear encounters for isotopic variants of this thermal reaction. 

Table I. Some features of ab inttio and semi-empirical potential energy surfaces for F + H2 -> FH + H...

It is now necessary to consider to what extent deviations from smooth correlations of k /kj) with AG or AG in proton transfer reactions reflect departures from the Hammond postulate. The Hammond postulate may be expected to apply to reasonably closely related three-centre reactions of the type considered above, and in particular to their simplified representations by empirical potential-energy surfaces. It does not follow that it applies generally to more complex reactions, and it is now well established that for concerted ionic reactions failure of bond-making and bond-breaking to remain properly in step can lead in the transition state to charge-localizations at atoms that bear no charge in the reactants or products, with the consequence that substituents at these atoms show no correlation between their effects on reaction rates and equilibria [123-126]. This behaviour has been best characterized in E2 j8-eliminations,... 

Doron D, Major DT, Kohen A, Thiel W, Wu X (2011) Hybrid quantum and classical simulations of the dihydrofolate reductase catalyzed hydride transfer reaction on an accurate semi-empirical potential energy surface. J Chem Theory Comput 7(10) 3420-3437 Field M (2007) A practical introduction to the simulation of molecular systems, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge... 

Pelzer and Wigner, both members of the Polanyi group, then combined these semi-empirical potential energy surfaces with considerations from statistical mechanics into an analysis of reaction rates that would form the starting point for transition state (Polanyi) or activated complex (Eyring) theory. However, neither Polanyi nor Eyring published his first article on transition state theory until after they had both departed Haber s institute, Polanyi for Manchester and Eyring for Berkley then Princeton. 

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