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The pathway and ab initio direct kinetics of the decomposition 5-aminotetrazole (5-ATZ) to HN3 and NH2CN was investigated. Reactant, products and transition state were optimized with MP2 and B3LYP methods using 6–311G** and aug-cc-pVDZ basis sets. The intrinsic reaction coordinate curve of the reaction was calculated using the MP2 method with 6–311G** basis set. The energies were refined using CCSD(T)/6–311G**. Rate constants were evaluated by conventional transition-state theory (CVT) and canonical variational transition-state theory (TST), with tunneling effect over 300 to 2,500 K. The results indicated that the tunneling effect and the variational effect are small for the calculated rate constants. The fitted three-parameter expression calculated using the CVT and TST methods are \({\text{k}}\left( {\text{T}} \right) = 4.07 \times 10^{11} \times {\text{T}}^{0.84} \times {\text{e}}^{\left( {{{ - 2.42 \times 10^4 } \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{ - 2.42 \times 10^4 } {\text{T}}}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {\text{T}}}} \right)} {\text{s}}^{ - 1} \) and \({\text{k}}\left( {\text{T}} \right) = 2.09 \times 10^{11} \times {\text{T}}^{0.89} \times {\text{e}}^{\left( {{{ - 2.36 \times 10^4 } \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{ - 2.36 \times 10^4 } T}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} T}} \right)} {\text{s}}^{ - 1} \) , respectively.
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The authors would like to thank Professor D.G. Truhlar for proving the POLYRATE 8.2 program. The project was supported by NSAF Foundation (No. 10776002) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics.
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Zhang, JG., Feng, LN., Zhang, SW. et al. The mechanism and kinetics of decomposition of 5-aminotetrazole. J Mol Model 14, 403–408 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00894-008-0290-3
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