Tunneling in a simple bond scission: The surprising barrier in the H loss from HCOOH+

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 114, Issue 37, 2010, Pages 10016-10023

  Shuman, Nicholas S ^a,b   Johnson, Melanie ^c,e   Stevens, William R ^a,f   Harding, Michael E ^d   Stanton, John F ^d   Baer, Tomas ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^e US Environmental Protection Agency ^*  (Switzerland)

^f U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; BOND SCISSIONS; CHANNEL BARRIER; DISSOCIATION DYNAMICS; ENERGY SHIFT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GASPHASE; GEOMETRY CHANGE; HEAT OF FORMATION; HIGH-LEVEL AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ION DISSOCIATIONS; ISOTOPIC SUBSTITUTION; MOLECULAR IONS; PHOTOELECTRON-PHOTOION COINCIDENCE; PROTON AFFINITY; RRKM THEORY;

CALCULATIONS; DISSOCIATION; IONS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; RATE CONSTANTS; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

FORMIC ACID;

EID: 77956757158     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp105724j     Document Type: Article

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