Observing the stereodynamics of chemical reactions using randomly oriented molecular beams.
A new method is demonstrated to study the stereodynamics of simple chemical reactions that does not require the use of oriented (or aligned) molecular beams or measurements of the orientation state of product molecules. Instead, it is shown that by numerically combining accurate measurements of the state-to-state differential cross section for two or more rotational states of the reagent molecule, the separate contribution from the individual helicity states can be extracted. New molecular beam experiments are conducted for the D+H(2)-->HD+H reaction that confirm the validity of the method.
Gustafsson
Magnus
M
Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, PO Box 23-166, Taipei, Taiwan.
Skodje
Rex T
RT
Zhang
Jianyang
J
Dai
Dongxu
D
Harich
Steven A
SA
Wang
Xiuyan
X
Yang
Xueming
X