REMODELING THE POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE OF THE F + H2O → HF + OH CHEMICAL REACTION
Potential energy surfaces (PES) are mathematical functions that describe the interaction among atoms during a chemical reaction. Knowing this, Computational Chemistry enables us to construct PESs of chemical reactions enabling the study of reaction dynamics. Since such electronic structure calculations are computationally expensive, the electronic energy of only some points in the space of nuclear configurations can be calculated. Therefore, strategies will be developed to remodel SEPs already described in the literature. For this project we will use the PES of the chemical reaction F + H2O → HF + OH, which is described in the literature and has the correct global topology, so that these will fit the results obtained with the MRCC method.