CROSSED-BEAM STUDIES OF NEUTRAL REACTIONS: State-Specific Differential Cross Sections
- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
- Vol. 52 (1), 139-164
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.physchem.52.1.139
Abstract
▪ Abstract Crossed-molecular-beam and laser techniques have enabled experimentalists to measure the state-resolved differential cross sections of elementary chemical reactions. This article reviews recent progress in this area. Particular emphasis is placed on some intriguing physical phenomena associated with a few benchmark reactions and how these measurements help in answering fundamental questions about reaction dynamics. We examine specifically the geometric phase effects in the reaction H + D2, the dynamical resonance phenomenon in F + HD, the unusually large spin-orbit reactivity in Cl(2P) + H2, the insertion reaction O(1D) + H2, and the mode-specific reactivity in Cl + CH4(ν). The give-and-take between experiment and theory in unraveling the physical picture of the dynamics is illustrated throughout this review.Keywords
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