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Potential Energy Surfaces for the H + HX (X = F, C1, Br, I) Abstraction and Exchange Reaction Channels Calculated by the Modified DIM Method

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Potential Energy Surfaces and Dynamics Calculations

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The potential energy surfaces of triatomic hydrides XH2, where X is a halogen atom, are of considerable interest in theoretical investigations of the abstraction and exchange reactions1–4

$$H+HX\rightarrow H_{2}+X$$
((1))
$$H{}'+HX\rightarrow H{}'X+H$$
((2))

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    M. Baer & I. Last (Lyast)

  2. Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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Baer, M., Last (Lyast), I. (1981). Potential Energy Surfaces for the H + HX (X = F, C1, Br, I) Abstraction and Exchange Reaction Channels Calculated by the Modified DIM Method. In: Truhlar, D.G. (eds) Potential Energy Surfaces and Dynamics Calculations. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1735-8_21

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