Extending nudged elastic band method to reaction pathways involving multiple spin states

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Abstract

There are diverse reactions including spin-state crossing, especially the reactions catalyzed by transition metal compounds. To figure out the mechanisms of such reactions, the discussion of minimum energy intersystem crossing (MEISC) points cannot be avoided. These points may be the bottleneck of the reaction or inversely accelerate the reactions by providing a better pathway. It is of great importance to reveal their role in the reactions by computationally locating the position of the MEISC points together with the reaction pathway. However, providing a proper initial guess for the structure of the MEISC point is not as easy as that of the transition state. In this work, we extended the nudged elastic band (NEB) method for multiple spin systems, which is named the multiple spin-state NEB method, and it is successfully applied to find the MEISC points while optimizing the reaction pathway. For more precisely locating the MEISC point, a revised approach was adopted. Meanwhile, our examples also suggest that special attention should be paid to the criterion to define an image optimized as the MEISC point.

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Zhao, L., Watanabe, K. J., Nakatani, N., Nakayama, A., Xu, X., & Hasegawa, J. Y. (2020). Extending nudged elastic band method to reaction pathways involving multiple spin states. Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(13). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0021923

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