Seven-dimensional quantum dynamics study of the O(3P)+CH4 reaction.

The initial state selected time-dependent wave packet calculations have been carried out to study the title reaction with seven degrees of freedom included by restricting the nonreacting CH(3) group under C(3V) symmetry and the CH bond length in the group. Total reaction probabilities as well as integral cross sections were calculated for the ground and four vibrationally excited reagent states. Our calculation shows that the reactivity is very small for the reaction for collision energy up to 1.0 eV for all the initial states. Initial vibration excitation of CH(4), in particular, the CH stretch excitation, enhances the reactivity, but only part of the excitation energy deposited can be used to reduce the reaction threshold. The rate constant for the ground initial state agrees rather well with that from a recent quasiclassical trajectory study and is larger than that from the semirigid vibrating rotor target calculations, in particular, in the low temperature region. On the other hand, the thermal rate constant calculated from the integral cross sections for these five vibrational states is about a factor of 20 smaller than that from the multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree study.

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