FEMTOSECOND DYNAMICS OF TRANSITION-STATES - THE CLASSICAL SADDLE-POINT BARRIER REACTIONS

Authors
MOLLER KB ZEWAIL AH
Citation
Kb. Moller et Ah. Zewail, FEMTOSECOND DYNAMICS OF TRANSITION-STATES - THE CLASSICAL SADDLE-POINT BARRIER REACTIONS, Chemical physics letters, 295(1-2), 1998, pp. 1-10
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Chemical physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00092614
Volume
295
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1 - 10
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-2614(1998)295:1-2<1:FDOT-T>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
In this Letter, we report molecular dynamics studies of the transition state (A + BC) of saddle-point barrier reactions. We compare the theo retical findings with direct experimental observation of reaction time s and kinetic energy distributions for the IHgI system. The results ac count for the dynamics of two- and three-body recoil from the transiti on state to final products and elucidate the nature of concerted (symm etric) and non-concerted (asymmetric) motions of the nuclei. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.