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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 25: Frontiers of Electronic-Structure Theory: Focus on the Interface Challenge III (joint session O/CPP/DS/TT)

O 25.2: Vortrag

Dienstag, 2. April 2019, 11:00–11:15, H9

Elucidating the Nuclear Quantum Dynamics of Intramolecular Double Hydrogen Transfer in Porphycene — •Yair Litman¹, Jeremy O. Richardson², Takashi Kumagai¹, and Mariana Rossi¹ — ¹Fritz Haber Insitute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany — ²ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

We address the double hydrogen transfer (DHT) dynamics of the porphycene molecule: A complex paradigmatic system where the making and breaking of H-bonds in a highly anharmonic potential energy surface requires a quantum mechanical treatment not only of the electrons but also of the nuclei[1]. We combine density-functional theory calculations, employing hybrid functionals and van der Waals corrections, with recently proposed and optimized path-integral ring-polymer methods for the calculation of vibrational spectra and reaction rates. Our simulations predict the position and width of the N-H stretching band of porphycene and DHT rates in excellent agreement with experiments, thus confirming our determination of the tunneling pathways and the anharmonic mode couplings that play a role in this reaction. They also provide quantitative information about the usually ignored competition between concerted and stepwise DHT pathways at different temperature. These results show that our theoretical approach can describe hydrogen transfer dynamics in different environments, for example when porphycenes are adsorbed on surfaces in prototype molecular switch architectures[2]. [1] Y. Litman, Richardson, J. O., Kumagai, T., Rossi, M. arXiv:1810.05681. [2] T. Kumagai, et al., J. Chem. Phys., 148, 102330 (2018).