Abstract

We report electronically nonadiabatic dynamics calculations including spin-orbit coupling for the photodissociation of CH(2)ClBr to yield Cl((2)P(3∕2)), Cl((2)P(1∕2)), Br((2)P(3∕2)), and Br((2)P(1∕2)). The potential energy is a 24 × 24 matrix (divided up here into four 6 × 6 blocks in a first approximation to the problem), in a spin-coupled fully diabatic representation obtained by combining the spin-free fourfold way with single-center spin-orbit coupling constants. The spin-free calculations are carried out by multiconfiguration quasidegenerate perturbation theory, and the fully diabatic potentials including spin-orbit coupling are fit to a matrix reactive force field. The dynamics are carried out by the coherent switches with decay of mixing method in the diabatic representation. The results show qualitative agreement with experiment.

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