Artificial Neural Network-Derived Unified Six-Dimensional Potential Energy Surface for Tetra Atomic Isomers of the Biogenic [H, C, N, O] System

Abstract

Recognition of different structural patterns in different potential energy surface regions, such as in isomerizing quasilinear tetra atomic molecules, is important for understanding the details of underlying physics and chemistry. In this respect, using three variants of artificial neural networks (ANNs), we investigated the six-dimensional (6-D) singlet potential energy surfaces (PES) of tetra atomic isomers of the biogenic [H, C, N, O] system. At first, we constructed a separate ANN potential for each of the studied isomers. In the next step, a comparative assessment of the separate ANN models led to the setting up of a unified 6-D singlet PES equally and accurately describing all studied isomers. The constructed unified model yields relative energies comparable to those obtained either from the gold standard CCSD(T) method or from separate ANNs for each of the studied isomers. The accuracy of the unified singlet PES is on the order of 10–4 Hartrees (0.1 kcal/mol). The developed PES in this work captures the main features of nonlinear and quasilinear tetra atomic isomers of this biogenic system.