THEORETICAL STUDY ON THE H2 ACTIVATION BY PtO+ AND ${\rm PtO}_{2}^{+}$ IN THE GAS PHASE

Abstract

Gas-phase H2 activation by PtO+ and [Formula: see text] were studied at the density functional level of theory (DFT) using the relativistic effective core potential (RECP) of Stuttgart basis sets on platinum atom and UB3LYP/6-311+G(2d,2p) level on hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Two reaction profiles corresponding to the doublet and quartet multiplicities were investigated in order to ascertain the presence of some spin inversion during the H2 reduction. The electron-transfer reactivity of the reactions were analyzed using the two-state model, and the strongly crossing behavior on the transition state (TS) area were shown. Finally, the actions of frontier molecular orbitals in minimum-energy crossing point (MECP) have been illuminated briefly. These theoretical results can act as a guide to further theoretical and experimental research. H2 activation mediated by metal oxide cations were found to be an exothermic spin-forbidden process resulting from a crossing between quartet and doublet profiles. To evaluate the spin-forbidden process in the reaction pathway, the spin-obit coupling (SOC) matrix elements are calculated at the MECP with the different potential energy surfaces (PESs) and the probability of crossing between the adiabatic potential-energy surfaces during a single pass through the avoided crossing region was described. Therefore, the intersystem crossing (ISC) at crossing points (CP) occur efficiently because of the large SOC (ca. 85.58 cm-1) involved.