• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.3559-3566
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• 2014

Study on the unimolecular reaction for $CH_2FO$ and $CD_2FO$ is carried out. The structures, energy barriers and zero point energy of the three channels in the title unimolecular reactions are computed with the MP2/6-311++G(3df, 3pd) method. RRKM theory is used to calculate the rate constants of canonical case at temperature range of 500-5000 K and microcanonical system at total energy of 19.05-71.68 kcal/mol. The results indicate that the anharmonic effect and isotope effect are very small for the three channels, and the anharmonic rate constants, around $10^9-10^{11}s^{-1}$, are close to the experimental prediction reasonably.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.952-957
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• 1995

In order to ease the treatment of anisotropic potential when developing the variational RRKM theory, we applied Fano-Racah's recoupling theory to the multipole-multipole interaction, resulting in the great simplification of the anisotropic potentials. The treatment appears as a generalization of Keesom transformation in case of dipole-dipole interaction and provides us with great insights to the characteristics of tensorial interactions in the multipole-multipole interaction system.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.3249-3252
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• 2013

We have explored the potential energy surface for the isomerization of the aniline (AN) radical cation to the 2-, 3-, and 4-methylpyridine (picoline, MP) radical cations using G3 model calculations. The isomerization may occur through the 1H-azepine (7-aza-cycloheptatriene) radical cation. A quantitative kinetic analysis has been performed using the Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus theory, based on the potential energy surface. The result shows that isomerization between $AN^{+\bullet}$ and each $MP^{+\bullet}$ hardly occurs before their dissociations.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.2301-2305
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• 2011

The potential energy surface (PES) for the loss of HCN or HNC from the pyrazine molecular ion was determined based on quantum chemical calculations using the G3//B3LYP method. Four possible dissociation pathways to form four $C_3H_3N^{+{{\bullet}}$ isomers were examined. A Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus quasi-equilibrium theory model calculation was performed to predict the dissociation rate constant and the product branching ratio on the basis of the obtained PES. The resultant rate constant for the HCN loss agreed with the previous experimental result. The kinetic analysis predicted that the formation of $CH=CHN{\equiv}CH^{+{\bullet}}+HCN$ was predominant, which occurred by three consecutive steps, a C-C bond cleavage to form a linear intermediate, a rearrangement to form an H-bridged intermediate, and elimination of HCN.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.33 no.12
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• pp.4098-4102
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• 2012

The potential energy surface (PES) for the loss of HCN from the pyrimidine molecular ion has been explored using quantum chemical calculations. Possible reaction pathways to form five $C_3H_3N^{+{\bullet}}$ isomers have been obtained with Gaussian 4 model calculations. The rate constant for the HCN loss and the product branching ratio have been calculated using the Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus theory on the basis of the obtained PES. The resultant rate constant agrees with the previous experimental result. By a kinetic analysis, it is proposed that the formation of $CH=CHC{\equiv}NH^{+{\bullet}}$ is favored near the dissociation threshold, while the formation of $CH=CHN{\equiv}CH^{+{\bullet}}$ is favored at high energies.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.30-35
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• 1980

The thermal decomposition reaction of ethyl bromide was studied in the temperature range of 724.5-$755.1^{\circ}K$. Pressure dependence of the reaction was observed in its fall-off region. A theoretical evaluation of the rate constants was carried out adopting RRKM formulation in the region and was compared with the experimental observation.The validity of theory was also reevaluated by using the observed results. The observed activation energy in this study and Arrhenius A-factor were 51.7 kcal/mole and $10^{12.5}$, respectively. The small A-factror in the study was discussed in terms of the formation of a tight activated complex and the molecular elimination as a prevalent reaction mode.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.203-208
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• 1983

A thermal decomposition of trichloroethylene was studied in the temperature range of 440-$460^{\circ}C$ by using the conventional static system. In order to investigate the pressure dependence of reaction and to eliminate free radical process, propylene was used as the bath gas. The pressure range investigated was 10∼900 Torr. The decomposition was the unimolecular dehydrochlorination and the reaction products were hydrogen chloride and dichloroacetylene. Results were interpreted in terms of the Ric-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus (RRKM) unimolecular rate theory and the Arrhenius parameters were determined from fall-off behaviors. The Arrhenius parameters are found to be log $A=13.8{\pm}0.2sec^{-1}$ and E = $56.6{\pm}0.7$ kcal/mole, respectively.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.241-245
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• 1994

A method has been developed to estimate the kinetic energy release originating from the reverse critical energy in unimolecular ion dissociation. Contribution from the excess energy was estimated by RRKM theory, the statistical adiabatic model and the modified phase space calculation. This was subtracted from the experimental kinetic energy release distribution (KERD) via deconvolution. The present method has been applied to the KERDs in $H_2$, loss from $C_6H_6^+$ and HF loss from ${CH_2CF_2}^+$. In the present formalism, not only the energy in the reaction coordinate but also the energy in some transitional vibrational degrees of freedom at the transition state is thought to contribute to the experimental kinetic energy release. Details of the methods for treating the transitional modes are found not to be critical to the final outcome. For a reaction with small excess energy and large reverse critical energy. KERD is shown to be mainly governed by the reverse critical energy.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.833-838
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• 2014

The energy- and time-dependent branching to the competing dissociation paths are studied by theory for coupled unimolecular dissociations of the o-, m-, and p-chlorotoluene radical cations to $C_7{H_7}^+$ (benzylium and tropylium). There are four different paths to $C_7{H_7}^+$, three to the benzylium ion and one to the tropylium ion, and all of them are coupled together. The branching to the multiple paths leads to the multiexponential decay of reactant with the branching ratio depending on both internal energy and time. To gain insights into the multipath branching, we study the detailed kinetics as a function of time and internal energy on the basis of ab inito/RRKM calculations. The number of reaction steps to $C_7{H_7}^+$ is counted for each path. Of the three isomers, the meta mostly goes through the coupling, whereas the para proceeds with little or no coupling. In the beginning, some reactants with high internal energy decay fast to the benzylium ion without any coupling and others rearrange to the other isomers. Later on all three isomers dissociate to the products via long-lived intermediates. Thus, the reactant shows a multiexponential decay and the branching ratio varies with time as the average internal energy decreases with time. The reciprocal of the effective lifetime is taken as the rate constant. The resulting rate-energy curves are in line with experiments. The present results suggest that the coupling between the stable isomers is thermodynamically controlled, whereas the branching to the product is kinetically controlled.