Publications

Authors: Silva, Murilo O.; Moreira, Giseli M.; Rosado, Jaime; Blanco, Francisco; Garcia, Gustavo; Bettega, Marcio H. F.; da Costa, Romarly F.

Journal: PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Publication date: 2023/11/21

DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04619b

Abstract: We report on elastic and electronically inelastic integral and differential cross sections as well as ionization and total cross sections for electron collisions with the pyrazine molecule. The Schwinger multichannel method is applied in calculations carried out according to the minimal orbital basis for single configuration interactions strategy from the 1-channel up to 139-channels close-coupling level of approximation. With […]

Authors: Garcia-Arroyo, Esther; Campos-Martinez, Jose; Bartolomei, Massimiliano; Hernandez, Marta I.; Pirani, Fernando; Halberstadt, Nadine

Journal: CHEMPHYSCHEM

Publication date: 2023/10/29

DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300424

Abstract: Interactions between molecular hydrogen and ions are of interest in cluster science, astrochemistry and hydrogen storage. In dynamical simulations, H-2 molecules are usually modelled as point particles, an approximation that can fail for anisotropic interactions. Here, we apply an adiabatic separation of the H-2 rotational motion to build effective pseudoatom-ion potentials and in turn study the properties of (H-2)(n)Na+/Cl- clusters. These interaction potentials are based on high-level ab initio […]

Authors: Endo, Yasuki; Chung, Chen-An; Witek, Henryk A.; Cabezas, Carlos; Lee, Yuan-Pern

Journal: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Publication date: 2023/10/10

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c05553

Abstract: Pure rotational transitions of methacrolein oxide (MACRO) were observed by Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy. Among the four low-lying conformers existing within an energy window of 3 kcal/mol, only the lowest-energy conformer, the anti-trans conformer, was detected in a discharged jet of a 1,3-diiode-2-methylprop-1-ene and O-2 mixture diluted in Ar. Nineteen pure rotational transitions, in the frequency range from 10 to 25 GHz, most of them showing A/E splitting […]

Authors: Carrillo-Bohorquez, Orlando; Valdes, Alvaro; Prosmiti, Rita

Journal: CHEMPHYSCHEM

Publication date: 2023/10/06

DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300570

Abstract: A water molecule confined inside the C-70 fullerene was quantum-mechanically described using a computational approach within the MCTDH framework. Such procedure involves the development of a full-dimensional coupled hamiltonian, with an exact kinetic energy operator, including all rotational, translational and vibrational degrees of freedom of the endofullerene system. In turn, through an effective pairwise potential model, the ground and rotationally excited states of the encapsulated H2O inside the C-70 cage were calculated, and traced back to […]

Authors: Castro-Gomez, L. Beatriz; Campos-Martinez, Jose; Hernandez, Marta I.; Hernandez-Lamoneda, Ramon

Journal: CHEMPHYSCHEM

Publication date: 2023/10/05

DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300387

Abstract: We present a detailed theoretical study of the molecular oxygen trimer where the potential energy surfaces of the seven multiplet states have been calculated by means of a pair approximation with very accurate dimer ab initio potentials. In order to obtain all the states a matrix representation of the potential using the uncoupled spin representation has been applied. The S = 0 and S = 1 states are nearly degenerate and low-lying […]

Authors: Lushchikova, O. V.; Reichegger, J.; Kollotzek, S.; Zappa, F.; Mahmoodi-Darian, M.; Bartolomei, M.; Campos-Martinez, J.; Gonzalez-Lezana, T.; Pirani, F.; Scheier, P.

Journal: PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Publication date: 2023/09/27

DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03452f

Abstract: Multiply charged superfluid helium nanodroplets are utilized to facilitate the growth of cationic copper clusters (Cun+, where n = 1-8) that are subsequently solvated with up to 50 H2 molecules. Production of both pristine and protonated cationic Cu clusters are detected mass spectrometrically. A joint effort between experiment and theory allows us to understand the nature of the […]