ON THE PRODUCT VIBRATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF EXOERGIC REACTIONS - THE B+OH SYSTEM

The dependence on the collision energy of the product vibrational dist ribution of exoergic reactions has been investigated by carrying out m odel and coupled channel calculations for the B + OH --> BO + H proces s. The location and number of peaks of the three-dimensional results d iffer from those obtained from collinear and model calculations and ag ree better with available experimental information. A rationale for th is is discussed in terms of the selective product vibrational excitati on associated with different orbital angular momentum values.