Photodissociation of OCS: Deviations between theory and experiment, and the importance of higher order correlation effects

J. A. Schmidt; J. M. H. Olsen

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Photodissociation of OCS: Deviations between theory and experiment, and the importance of higher order correlation effects

J. A. Schmidt, J. M. H. Olsen

Department of Chemistry

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Abstract

The photodissociation of carbonyl sulfide (OCS) was investigated theoretically in a series of studies by Schmidt and co-workers. Initial studies [J. A. Schmidt, M. S. Johnson, G. C. McBane, and R. Schinke, J. Chem. Phys. 136, 131101 (2012); J. A. Schmidt, M. S. Johnson, G. C. McBane, and R. Schinke, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 054313 (2012)] found photodissociation in the first UV-band to occur mainly by excitation of the 2¹A^′ (A) excited state. However, in a later study [G. C. McBane, J. A. Schmidt, M. S. Johnson, and R. Schinke, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 094314 (2013)] it was found that a significant fraction of photodissociation must occur by excitation of 1¹A^″ (B) excited state to explain the product angular distribution. The branching between excitation of the A and B excited states is determined by the magnitude of the transition dipole moment vectors in the Franck-Condon region. This study examines the sensitivity of these quantities to changes in the employed electronic structure methodology. This study benchmarks the methodology employed in previous studies against highly correlated electronic structure methods (CC3 and MRAQCC) and provide evidence in support of the picture of the OCS photodissociation process presented in [G. C. McBane, J. A. Schmidt, M. S. Johnson, and R. Schinke, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 094314 (2013)] showing that excitation of A and B electronic states both contribute significantly to the first UV absorption band of OCS. In addition, this study presents evidence in support of the assertion that the A state potential energy surface employed in previous studies underestimates the energy at highly bent geometries (γ ∼ 70°) leading to overestimated rotational energy in the product CO. crossmark REFERENCES S. A. Montzka, P. Calvert, B. D. Hall, J. W. Elkins, T. J. Conway, P. P. Tans, and C. Sweeney, J. Geophys. Res. 112, D09302, doi:10.1029/2006JD007665 (2007).

Original language	English
Article number	184310
Journal	Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume	141
Issue number	18
ISSN	0021-9606
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901426
Publication status	Published - 14 Nov 2014

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Photodissociation of OCS: Deviations between theory and experiment, and the importance of higher order correlation effects

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