The inversion mechanism for the reaction H + CD4 --> CD3H + D

Article abstract of DOI:10.1063/1.461130

The reaction H+CD4<*>CHD3+D is shown to take place by an inversion mechanism.The evidence is as follows.When the H atom has an anisotropic (perpendicular) velocity distribution is also perpendicular.For a relative energy near 2 eV, the reaction cross section for H+CD4 is 0.084+/0.014A² and for H+CH3D is 0.040+/-0.015A².At the same H atom energy, when CH3CD3 is substituted for CD4, no D atoms can be detected.Finaly, around 80percent of the initial H atom kinetic energy is released as kinetic energy of the D atom showing that the reaction is nearly vibrationally adiabatic.

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The inversion mechanism for the reaction H+CD4→CD3H+D
Arun Chattopadhyay, Shintaro Tasaki, Richard Bersohn, and Masahiro Kawasaki
Citation: The Journal of Chemical Physics 95, 1033 (1991); doi: 10.1063/1.461130
View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.461130
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