Electronic energy density in chemical reaction systems
- 22 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 115 (8) , 3497-3518
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1384012
Abstract
The energy of chemical reaction is visualized in real space using the electronic energy density associated with the electron density The electronic energy density is decomposed into the kinetic energy density the external potential energy density and the interelectron potential energy density Using the electronic energy density we can pick up any point in a chemical reaction system and find how the electronic energy E is assigned to the selected point. We can then integrate the electronic energy density in any region R surrounding the point and find out the regional electronic energy to the global E. The kinetic energy density is used to identify the intrinsic shape of the reactants, the electronic transition state, and the reaction products along the course of the chemical reaction coordinate. The intrinsic shape is identified with the electronic interface S that discriminates the region of the electronic drop from the region of the electronic atmosphere in the density distribution of the electron gas. If the R spans the whole space, then the integral gives the total E. The regional electronic energy in thermodynamic ensemble is realized in electrochemistry as the intrinsic Volta electric potential and the intrinsic Herring–Nichols work function We have picked up first a hydrogen-like atom for which we have analytical exact expressions of the relativistic kinetic energy density and its nonrelativistic version These expressions are valid for any excited bound states as well as the ground state. Second, we have selected the following five reaction systems and show the figures of the as well as the other energy densities along the intrinsic reaction coordinates: a protonation reaction to He, addition reactions of HF to and hydrogen abstraction reactions of from HF and Valence electrons possess their unique delocalized drop region remote from those heavily localized drop regions adhered to core electrons. The kinetic energy density and the tension density can vividly demonstrate the formation of the chemical bond. Various basic chemical concepts in these chemical reaction systems have been clearly visualized in real three-dimensional space.
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