Formation of complex organic molecules on interstellar CO ices? Insights from computational chemistry simulations

S Ferrero, C Ceccarelli, P Ugliengo… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The carbon (3 P) atom is a reactive species that, according to laboratory experiments and
theoretical calculations, condensates with interstellar ice components. This fact is of …

Ring-polymer instanton tunneling splittings of tropolone and isotopomers using a δ-machine learned ccsd (t) potential: Theory and experiment shake hands

A Nandi, G Laude, SS Khire, ND Gurav… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tropolone, a 15-atom cyclic molecule, has received much interest both experimentally and
theoretically due to its H-transfer tunneling dynamics. An accurate theoretical description is …

Elucidating the nuclear quantum dynamics of intramolecular double hydrogen transfer in porphycene

Y Litman, JO Richardson, T Kumagai… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We address the double hydrogen transfer (DHT) dynamics of the porphycene molecule, a
complex paradigmatic system in which the making and breaking of H-bonds in a highly …

Transfer learning for affordable and high-quality tunneling splittings from instanton calculations

S Käser, JO Richardson… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The combination of transfer learning (TL) a low-level potential energy surface (PES) to a
higher level of electronic structure theory together with ring-polymer instanton (RPI) theory is …

Gaussian process regression for transition state search

A Denzel, J Kastner - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2018 - ACS Publications
We implemented a gradient-based algorithm for transition state search which uses Gaussian
process regression. Besides a description of the algorithm, we provide a method to find the …

Instanton theory for Fermi's golden rule and beyond

IM Ansari, ER Heller, G Trenins… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Instanton theory provides a semiclassical approximation for computing quantum tunnelling
effects in complex molecular systems. It is typically applied to proton-transfer reactions for …

Proton-Tunneling Dynamics Along Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bonds: A Full-Dimensional Instanton Study of 6-Hydroxy-2-Formylfulvene

PE Videla, L Foguel, PH Vaccaro… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the dynamics of proton transfer along low-barrier hydrogen bonds remains
an outstanding challenge of great fundamental and practical interest, reflecting the central …

Heavy‐Atom Quantum Tunnelling in Spin Crossovers of Nitrenes

ER Heller, JO Richardson - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We simulate two recent matrix‐isolation experiments at cryogenic temperatures, in which a
nitrene undergoes spin crossover from its triplet state to a singlet state via quantum …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio instanton rate theory made efficient using Gaussian process regression

G Laude, D Calderini, DP Tew, JO Richardson - Faraday discussions, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Ab initio instanton rate theory is a computational method for rigorously including tunnelling
effects into the calculations of chemical reaction rates based on a potential-energy surface …

Processing of hydroxylamine, NH2OH, an important prebiotic precursor, on interstellar ices

G Molpeceres, VM Rivilla, K Furuya… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Hydroxylamine, NH2OH, is one of the already detected interstellar molecules with the
highest prebiotic potential. Yet, the abundance of this molecule found by astronomical …