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. 2021 Sep 17;125(38):8434–8453. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c06913

Table 3. Sensitivity of the Calculated Branching Fractions for the O(3P) + Benzene Reaction to the CMB Conditions, the Adopted Theoretical Model, and Uncertainties in the Model Parameters.

model C6H5O + H (triplet) C5H6 + CO C6H5O + H (singlet)
collision energy distribution 0.26 0.59 0.15
Landau–Zener ISCa 0.22 0.64 0.14
weak coupling ISCa 0.25 0.61 0.14
MECP energy – 2 kcal/mola,b 0.10 0.73 0.18
MECP energy + 2 kcal/mola,b 0.53 0.38 0.08
a

Simulations were performed at the average collision energy of 8.2 kcal/mol.

b

Simulations were performed using the weak coupling ISC model.