Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry University of Utah Salt Lake City UT 84112-0850 USA
2. Department of Chemistry Washington State University Pullman WA 99164-4630 USA
Abstract
AbstractGuided ion beam tandem mass spectrometry was used to examine the kinetic energy dependent reactions of U+ with O2 and CO. In the reaction of U+ with O2, the UO+ product is formed in a barrierless and exothermic process with a reaction efficiency at low energies of k/kcol=1.1±0.2, but increases at higher collision energies. Formation of both UO+ and UC+ in the reaction of U+ with CO is endothermic. 0 K bond dissociation energies (BDEs) of D0(U+‐O)=7.88±0.09 eV and D0(U+‐C)=4.03±0.13 eV were determined by analyzing the kinetic energy dependent cross sections in the latter endothermic reactions. These values are within experimental uncertainty of previously reported experimental values. Additionally, the electronic states of UO+ and UC+ and the potential energy surfaces for the reactions were explored by quantum chemical calculations. The former include a full Feller‐Peterson‐Dixon composite approach with correlation contributions up to CCSDT(Q) for UO and UO+, yielding D0(U‐O)=7.82 eV and D0(U+‐O)=7.99 eV, as well as more approximate CCSD(T) calculations where a semi‐empirical model was used to estimate spin‐orbit energy contributions, which are generally found to improve the agreement with experiment. Both experimental BDEs are observed to be close to those of their transition metal congeners, ScL+, YL+, and GdL+ (L=O and C).
Funder
Basic Energy Sciences
U.S. Department of Energy
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