Theoretical study of the highly vibrationally excited states of FHF−: Ab initio potential energy surface and hyperspherical formulation

A three‐dimensional description of vibrationally highly excited linear molecules is formulated in hyperspherical coordinates, based on a successive adiabatic reduction scheme. The method is applied to the low‐lying and highly excited vibrational states of FHF−, a prototype of symmetric bihalide anions, which has attracted spectroscopic interest due to its peculiar vibrational anharmonicity. Ab initio potential energy surfaces (PESs) which cover the ground‐state potential well of FHF− and/or its dissociation to the F−+HF channel have been obtained by using the coupled electron pair approach (CEPA) method. An hyperspherical calculation using the ab initio PES of the sixth‐order Simons–Parr–Finlan analytical form has correctly reproduced the experimental fundamental frequencies. Specifically, the vibrationally highly excited FHF− above the dissociation threshold is proposed as a candidate for transition state spectroscopy (TSS) of unimolecular dissociation reactions without barrier.A three‐dimensional description of vibrationally highly excited linear molecules is formulated in hyperspherical coordinates, based on a successive adiabatic reduction scheme. The method is applied to the low‐lying and highly excited vibrational states of FHF−, a prototype of symmetric bihalide anions, which has attracted spectroscopic interest due to its peculiar vibrational anharmonicity. Ab initio potential energy surfaces (PESs) which cover the ground‐state potential well of FHF− and/or its dissociation to the F−+HF channel have been obtained by using the coupled electron pair approach (CEPA) method. An hyperspherical calculation using the ab initio PES of the sixth‐order Simons–Parr–Finlan analytical form has correctly reproduced the experimental fundamental frequencies. Specifically, the vibrationally highly excited FHF− above the dissociation threshold is proposed as a candidate for transition state spectroscopy (TSS) of unimolecular dissociation reactions without barrier.

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