The lack of leaving-atom isotope effects on rotational state distributions in M* + H2 (HD) → MH(ν, N)+H (D) reactions: “Half-collision” classical trajectories on model H-M-H anisotropic potential surfaces

✍ Scribed by W.H. Breckenridge; Jiang-Hua Wang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 587 KB
• Volume: 139
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(87)80145-8

✦ Synopsis

Simple "half-collision" classical trajectories on model potential surfaces show that the lack of leaving-atom isotope effects on initial rotational state distributions P(N) in reactions of the type M*+H2 (HD) -+MH( v, N) +H (D) would result from decomposition of H-M-H( D) intermediates on anisotropic potential surfaces.