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The work is focused on the characterization of a long-range interacting complex in the reaction between atomic oxygen, in its ground state O(\(^{3}\)P) and acrylonitrile CH\(_{2}\)CHCN, also known as vinyl cyanide or cyano ethylene, through electronic structure calculations. Different ab initio methods have been used in order to understand which functional provides a better description of the long-range interaction. The results of the work suggest that B2PLYPD3 gives the best description of the long-range interaction, while CAM-B3LYP represents the best compromise between chemical accuracy and computational cost.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 811312 for the project “Astro-Chemical Origins” (ACO). This work was supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) BANDO ASI DC-VUM-2017-034 CONTRATTO DI FINANZIAMENTO ASI N. 2019-3 U.O, “Vita nello spazio - Origine, presenza, persistenza della vita nello spazio, dalle molecole agli estremofili”. The authors acknowledge the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale of the University of Perugia for allocated computing time within the project “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018–2022”.
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Mancini, L., de Aragão, E.V.F. (2021). A Computational Analysis of the Reaction of Atomic Oxygen O(\(^3\)P) with Acrylonitrile. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12958. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87016-4_25
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