A study of HOCO resonances in the OH+CO→CO2+H reaction

Abstract
Quasibound states of the HOCO intermediate in the reaction OH+CO→H+CO2 are studied by means of the stabilization method. A reduced‐dimensionality model is used. The calculated resonance positions and lifetimes agree well with previous quantum scattering calculations. Most of the quasibound states can be assigned approximately to a vibrational excitation in the higher frequency OH vibration and different progressions in the HO–CO stretching mode. Some interesting mode‐specific effects in the dynamics of the unimolecular decay are predicted.

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