Abstract
The intramolecular vibrational relaxation dynamics of formic acid and its deuterated isotopologues is simulated on the full-dimensional potential energy surface of Richter and Carbonnière [J. Chem. Phys. 148, 064303 (2018)] using the Heidelberg MCTDH package. We focus on couplings with the torsion vibrational modes close to the trans-cis isomerization coordinate from the dynamics of artificially excited vibrational mode overtones. The bright C-O stretch vibrational mode is coupled to the out-of-the plane torsion mode in HCOOH, where this coupling could be exploited for laser-induced trans-to-cis isomerization. Strong isotopic effects are observed: deuteration of the hydroxyl group, i.e., in HCOOD and DCOOD, destroys the C-O stretch to torsion mode coupling whereas in DCOOH, little to no effect is observed.
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