Abstract
The spectrum for the photodetachment of electrons from H 3 O - to produce H 2 +OH or H+H 2 O is calculated with the rotating bond approximation (RBA). This method treats explicitly three active degrees of freedom (two stretching vibrations and one bending mode) in both H 3 O - and the neutral reactive product. Potential-energy surfaces based on new ab initio calculations in these same three degrees of freedom are used. Comparison with experimental photodetachment spectra demonstrates the accuracy of the model and confirms that the experiment accesses photodetachment from both the H - (H 2 O) isomer of H 3 O - , producing H+H 2 O, and the higher energy OH - (H 2 ) isomer yielding OH+H 2 . In the latter case, a progression of bands associated with different OH rotational states in the H 2 +OH product channel is predicted. The calculations suggest that the observed photodetachment spectrum is mainly providing information on the entrance and exit channels of the OH+H 2 →H 2 O+H potential-energy surface quite close to the transition state.
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