Abstract
A concept of trifurcation of a reaction pathway is introduced to analyze the case where a downhill path from the first-order saddle point accompanies three branches via the valley–ridge inflection region, leading to three different product minima on the potential energy surface. We provide a detailed analysis on the reaction path for an electron transfer reaction, HCHO−+CH3Cl→OH2C–CH3…Cl−, as an illustrative example of the trifurcating reaction path.
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