Computational mechanistic study of methanol and molecular oxygen reaction on the triplet and singlet potential energy surfaces

Author： Shayan Kolsoom Vahedpour Morteza

Publisher： Springer Publishing Company

ISSN： 1040-0400

Source： Structural Chemistry, Vol.24, Iss.4, 2013-08, pp. : 1051-1062

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Abstract

The reaction of CH₃OH with the O₂ on the triplet and singlet potential energy surfaces (PES) was carried out using the B3LYP, MP2, and CCSD(T)//B3LYP theoretical approaches in connection with the 6-311++G(3df–3pd) basis set. Three pre-reactive complexes, ¹C1, ¹C2, and ³C1, on the singlet and triplet PES were formed between methanol and molecular oxygen. From a variety of the complexes, seven types of products are obtained, of which four types are found to be thermodynamically stable. Results reveal that there exists one intersystem crossing between triplet and singlet PES. For P4 adduct that is the main and kinetically the most favorable product, the rate constants are calculated in the temperature range of 200–1,000 K in the reliable pathway.