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Article << Previous     |     Next >>   Contents Vol 63(3)

First-Principle Study of Atomic Hydrogen Interaction with a Fluorinated Corannulene Radical

Hong Zhang A D, Sean C. Smith A, Shinkoh Nanbu B, Hiroki Nakamura C

A Centre for Computational Molecular Science, AIBN Building (no. 75), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.
B Research Institute for Information Technology, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
C Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.
D Corresponding author. Email: h.zhang@uq.edu.au
 
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Abstract

In this work, we study fluorination effects on atomic hydrogen interactions with the fluorinated corannulene radical (C15H10F5), which was built as a model for a partially fluorinated nanotube (or fullerene). Complete active space self-consistent field and multi-reference configuration interaction methods are employed to calculate the potential energy surfaces for both ground and excited electronic states, and the R-matrix quantum dynamics method is used to investigate the atomic hydrogen transmission and reflection dynamics through the five-membered ring in the fluorinated corannulene radical, which includes resonance effects as well as non-adiabatic transitions between the ground and excited electronic states. We also investigate hydrogen adsorptions at two sites in the middle five-membered ring, namely, on top of a carbon atom and in the middle of a carbon–carbon bond. We found that on carbon-top site, the adsorption is almost barrierless, whereas in the middle bond site, there is a barrier to hydrogen adsorption.



   
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