Quantum rate constants for the H2+OH reaction with the centrifugal sudden approximation

The cumulative reaction probability (CRP) has been calculated for the H2+OH↔H2O+H in its full dimensionality by using the centrifugal sudden (CS) approximation for J>0. The Boltzmann average of the CRP provides the most accurate thermal rate constant to date for the title reaction on the Walch, Dunning, Schatz, Elgersma (WDSE) potential energy surface (PES). It is found that the theoretical rate is larger than the experimental value in the low temperature region (a factor of ∼1.8 at 300 K), and smaller than the experimental value for temperatures higher than 500 K, indicating that a more accurate PES is needed to provide a quantitative description of the title reaction. We also demonstrate that the “J-shifting” approximation in which we calculate N(J>K,K) from N(J=K,K) by an energy shift works very well for this reaction. However, the “J- and K-shifting” approximation [calculating N(J,K) from N(J=0,K=0)] overestimates the rate for this reaction by about 60% for all the temperatures investigated. It is als...

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