Dynamics of ethyl radical decomposition. II. Applicability of classical mechanics to large‐molecule unimolecular reaction dynamics

Journal of Computational Chemistry - Tập 3 Số 3 - Trang 335-343 - 1982
William L. Hase1, Daniel G. Buckowski1,2
1Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 48202
2Undergraduate research fellow.

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AbstractThe classical trajectory method is used to investigate the unimolecular dynamics of ethyl radical dissociation. It is found that chaotic trajectories need not be backward integrable to yield accurate lifetime, and product energy and angular momenta distributions. This allows the use of large numerical integration step sizes in trajectory calculations. The product energy and angular momenta distributions are independent of the ethyl radical lifetime, and are obtained after only 50 dissociation events. Differences between classical and quantal unimolecular dynamics are discussed, and a prognosis for future trajectory studies of large‐molecule unimolecular decompositions is given.

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