Dynamics of Protonated Acetonitrile Formation in CD3CN+· + CH3CN Collisions: A Crossed-Beam Scattering Study

1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 1152-1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ján Žabka ◽  
Zdeněk Dolejšek ◽  
Inosuke Koyano ◽  
Zdeněk Herman

Dynamics of the elementary protonation reaction in collisions of the acetonitrile cation with acetonitrile was investigated in crossed-beam scattering experiments in the hyperthermal collision energy range 1.17-2.5 eV. The reaction proceeds by three parallel collision mechanisms: direct proton (deuteron) transfer, direct H-atom transfer, and decomposition of an intermediate complex. The relative contributions of the three mechanisms to the formation of the product at T = 2.5 eV are about equal. Analysis of product angular distributions suggests that the geometry of the critical configuration of the decomposing intermediate is prolate, not far from linear.

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 2168-2174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Vančura ◽  
Zdeněk Herman

Dynamics of the HD2O+ formation in the reaction of D2O+ and NH3 was investigated in a crossed-beam scattering experiment. At T = 1·5 eV (c.m.) the product is formed simultaneously by two different collision mechanisms, by a direct H-atom transfer and by the decomposition of an intermediate complex (D2O.NH3)+; the probabilities of the two mechanisms are about equal at this collision energy. The scattering makes it possible to suggest that in the critical configuration the intermediate complex is a prolate, near-linear species D2OH+.NH2.


1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (Part 1, No. 2A) ◽  
pp. 868-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasunobu Kino ◽  
Fumiaki Murakami ◽  
Shinjiro Yagyu ◽  
Shigehiko Yamamoto

2017 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 04011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Vorobyev ◽  
Alexei M. Gagarski ◽  
Oleg A. Shcherbakov ◽  
Larisa A. Vaishnene ◽  
Alexei L. Barabanov

JETP Letters ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 242-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Vorobyev ◽  
A. M. Gagarski ◽  
O. A. Shcherbakov ◽  
L. A. Vaishnene ◽  
A. L. Barabanov

Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 336 (6089) ◽  
pp. 1687-1690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Jankunas ◽  
Richard N. Zare ◽  
Foudhil Bouakline ◽  
Stuart C. Althorpe ◽  
Diego Herráez-Aguilar ◽  
...  

When a hydrogen (H) atom approaches a deuterium (D2) molecule, the minimum-energy path is for the three nuclei to line up. Consequently, nearly collinear collisions cause HD reaction products to be backscattered with low rotational excitation, whereas more glancing collisions yield sideways-scattered HD products with higher rotational excitation. Here we report that measured cross sections for the H + D2 → HD(v′ = 4, j′) + D reaction at a collision energy of 1.97 electron volts contradict this behavior. The anomalous angular distributions match closely fully quantum mechanical calculations, and for the most part quasiclassical trajectory calculations. As the energy available in product recoil is reduced, a rotational barrier to reaction cuts off contributions from glancing collisions, causing high-j′ HD products to become backward scattered.


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