Dynamical hydrogen atom tunneling in dichlorotropolone: a combined quantum, semiclassical, and classical study.
Based on the Cartesian Reaction Surface framework we construct a four-dimensional potential for the tropolone derivative 3,7-dichlorotropolone, a molecule with an intramolecular O-H...O hydrogen bond. The reduced configuration space involves the in-plane hydrogen atom coordinates, a symmetric O-O vibrational mode, and an antisymmetric mode related to deformations of the seven-membered ring. The system is characterized in terms of quantum mechanical computations of the low-lying eigenstates as well as a classical and semiclassical analysis of spectra obtained via Fourier transforming autocorrelation functions. For the semiclassical analysis we utilize the amplitude-free correlation function method [K. Hotta and K. Takatsuka, J. Phys. A 36, 4785 (2003)]. Our results demonstrate substantial anharmonic couplings leading to highly correlated wave functions even at moderate energies. Furthermore, the importance of dynamical tunneling in tropolone is suggested since many low-lying states--including the ground state--lie above the classical saddle point but nevertheless appear as split pairs.
Giese
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Institut für Chemie, Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustrasse 3, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Ushiyama
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Takatsuka
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Kühn
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