Rotational state dependence of the reactivity of oriented symmetric top molecules

✍ Scribed by R.D. Levine; R.B. Bernstein

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 426 KB
• Volume: 132
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(86)80685-6

✦ Synopsis

Extending the angle-dependent line-of-centers model originally developed to treat the orientation dependence of atom-molecule reaction cross sections, it is possible to predict the JKM dependence of the reactivity of rotationally state-selected, oriented symmetric top molecules in collision with spherically symmetric co-reagents. In a certain well-defined limit the cross section depends only upon the characteristic quantum number combination kM/(J*t J), the average orientation of the symmetric top.