The Light‐Driven Isomerization of Aqueous Nitrate: A Theoretical Perspective
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Abstract
Abstract The reaction mechanism for the rearrangement of the nitrate anion to its cis and trans peroxonitrite isomers is investigated in detail by quantum theoretical methods. The electronic ground state potential energy hypersurface (PES) features a bifurcation point along the minimum energy path at high energy, while the intrinsic reaction path moves the bifurcation point towards the transition state (TS) between the two peroxynitrite isomers. Coupled‐cluster calculations reveal a high‐lying transition state (4.6 eV) for the major photochemical isomerization pathway via an S 1 /S 0 conical intersection, explaining why electronic excitation of the bright singlet states with λ =200–270 nm is required to trigger formation of peroxinitrite, while excitation of the weak band around 300 nm (wavelengths >270 nm) does instead lead to non‐radiative regeneration of NO 3 − . The influence of the aqueous solution is considered using polarizable continuum solvation in combination with explicitly solvated model systems. Despite the charged and polar nature of nitrate, we find that solvent effects exert a suprisingly small influence, neither changing the shape of the PES, nor affecting the nature of the excited states.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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