Some remarks on the stability of the ground and excited electronic states of the CF2++ dication

Autor: Jan Hrušák
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Chemical Physics Letters. 338:189-194
ISSN: 0009-2614
DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(01)00277-9
Popis: The dissociation path of the ground state of CF 2 ++ ( 1 Σ g + ) is investigated by means of the multi-reference averaged quadratic coupled cluster (AQCC) method using an ANO type basis set. Low lying electronically excited states involved in the dissociation are also calculated. The CF 2 ++ ( 1 Σ g + ) dication has to be considered as metastable ( ΔE Diss =−8.5 kcal/mol). However, the dissociation into the ground states of the products (i.e., CF + ( 1 Σ + ) and F + ( 3 P ) ) is spin forbidden. Further, the surface crossing of the ground-state potential energy surfaces (PES) with the lowest triplet surface ( 3 A ′ ) occurs around the C–F distance of 1.85 A. The related barrier is calculated to be ∼5 eV.
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