Quasi-classical dynamics investigations of the F + D 2 O → DF + OD reaction on a full dimensional accurate potential energy surface

Abstract

Abstract The influence of vibrational excitations in the fully deuterated water (D2O) reactant on the reaction with the fluorine atom (F) is investigated using the full-dimensional quasi-classical trajectory method on an accurate ground electronic state potential energy surface. The results show that the reactant vibrational excitation in each mode of D2O has very complicated effect on the reactivity. At low collision energy, excitations in all three modes are more effective than collision energy in promoting the reaction, and their efficacies follow this order: symmetric stretching mode > anti-symmetric stretching mode > bending mode. At high collision energies, the efficacies of the bending and the anti-symmetric stretching modes are similar to or slightly less than collision energy, while the symmetric stretching mode is significantly less effective than collision energy. These intricate mode specificities in the F + D2O → DF + OD reaction cannot be rationalized by the sudden vector projection model due to much denser density of states and faster intramolecular vibrational relaxation rate in D2O than in H2O.