Product rotational polarization in the photoinitiated bimolecular reaction A+BC→AB+C on attractive, mixed and repulsive surfaces

Abstract

The product rotational polarization is reported using the quasiclassical trajectory method for the photoinitiated bimolecular reaction A+BC→AB+C. The model takes the form of a 3D quasiclassical trajectory study of a hypothetical exothermic reaction employing combinations of (a): three different potential energy surfaces (attractive, mixed and repulsive), (b): three markedly different reagent mass combinations (H+HL, H+LL and H+HH, where L≡1 amu and H≡80 amu). Four PDDCSs (2π/σ) (dσ00/dωt), (2π/σ) (dσ20/dωt), (2π/σ) (dσ22+/dωt), and (2π/σ) (dσ21−/dωt) which are usually sensitive to many photoinitiated bimolecular reaction experiments are presented. Furthermore, the distribution of dihedral angle P(φr) and the distribution of angle between K and J′ P(θr) are discussed. Moreover, the angular distribution of product rotational vectors in the form of polar plots in θr and φr is calculated.