Published August 21, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Rotational mode specificity in the Cl + CHD3 → HCl + CD3 reaction

  • 1. 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)
  • 2. Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433 (China)
  • 3. Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan (China)
  • 4. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 (United States)
  • 5. Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518, Budapest 112 (Hungary)

Description

By exciting the rotational modes of vibrationally excited CHD3(v1 = 1, JK), the reactivity for the Cl + CHD3 → HCl + CD3 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 CHD3 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

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Journal Title
Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal Volume
141
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 074310-074310.9
ISSN
0021-9606
CODEN
JCPSA6

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
46125694
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
Descriptors DEI
HYDROCHLORIC ACID; REACTIVITY; ROTATION; SPECIFICITY
Descriptors DEC
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC ACIDS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; MOTION

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