Rotational mode specificity in the Cl + CHD{sub 3} → HCl + CD{sub 3} reaction
- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Wuhan Center for Magnetic Resonance, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 (China)
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan (China)
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 (United States)
- Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518, Budapest 112 (Hungary)
By exciting the rotational modes of vibrationally excited CHD{sub 3}(v{sub 1} = 1, JK), the reactivity for the Cl + CHD{sub 3} → HCl + CD{sub 3} reaction is observed enhanced by as much as a factor of two relative to the rotationless reactant. To understand the mode specificity, the reaction dynamics was studied using both a reduced-dimensional quantum dynamical model and the conventional quasi-classical trajectory method, both of which reproduced qualitatively the measured enhancements. The mechanism of enhancement was analyzed using a Franck-Condon model and by inspecting trajectories. It is shown that the higher reactivity for higher J states of CHD{sub 3} with K = 0 can be attributed to the enlargement of the cone of acceptance. On the other hand, the less pronounced enhancement for the higher J = K states is apparently due to the fact that the rotation along the C–H bond is less effective in opening up the cone of acceptance.
- OSTI ID:
- 22419798
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 141, Issue 7; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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