Kinetic isotope effects and how to describe them

We review several methods for computing kinetic isotope effects in chemical reactions including semiclassical and quantum instanton theory. These methods describe both the quantization of vibrational modes as well as tunneling and are applied to the ⋅H + H2 and ⋅H + CH4 reactions. The absolute rate...

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Main Authors: Konstantin Karandashev, Zhen-Hao Xu, Markus Meuwly, Jiří Vaníček, Jeremy O. Richardson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC and ACA 2017-11-01
Series:Structural Dynamics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4996339