Calculations of the active mode and energetic barrier to electron attachment to 
CF3 and comparison with kinetic modeling of experimental results.

Han, H.; Alday, B.; Shuman, N. S.; Wiens, J. P.; Troe, J.; Viggianob, A. A.; Guo, H.

doi:10.1039/c6cp05867a

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Calculations of the active mode and energetic barrier to electron attachment to CF3 and comparison with kinetic modeling of experimental results.

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Troe, J.
Emeritus Group of Spectroscopy and Photochemical Kinetics, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Han, H., Alday, B., Shuman, N. S., Wiens, J. P., Troe, J., Viggianob, A. A., et al. (2016). Calculations of the active mode and energetic barrier to electron attachment to CF3 and comparison with kinetic modeling of experimental results. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18(45), 31064-31071. doi:10.1039/c6cp05867a.

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To provide a deeper understanding of the kinetics of electron attachment to CF3, the six-dimensional potential energy surfaces of both CF3 and CF3- were developed by fitting similar to 3000 ab initio points per surface at the AE-CCSD(T)-F12a/AVTZ level using the permutation invariant polynomial-neural network (PIP-NN) approach. The fitted potential energy surfaces for CF3 and CF3- had root mean square fitting errors relative to the ab initio calculations of 1.2 and 1.8 cm(-1), respectively. The main active mode for the crossing between the two potential energy surfaces was identified as the umbrella bending mode of CF3 in C-3v symmetry. The lowest energy crossing point is located at R-CF = 1.306 angstrom and theta(FCF) = 113.6 degrees with the energy of 0.051 eV above the minimum of the CF3 electronic surface. This value is only slightly larger than the experimental data 0.026 +/- 0.01 eV determined by kinetic modeling of electron attachment to CF3. The small discrepancy between the theoretical and experimentally measured values is analyzed.