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  • The Roaming Atom: Straying ...
    Townsend, D.; Lahankar, S. A.; Lee, S. K.; Chambreau, S. D.; Suits, A. G.; Zhang, X.; Rheinecker, J.; Harding, L. B.; Bowman, J. M.

    Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 11/2004, Letnik: 306, Številka: 5699
    Journal Article

    We present a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of formaldehyde ($H_{2}CO$) dissociation to H2and CO at energies just above the threshold for competing H elimination. High-resolution state-resolved imaging measurements of the CO velocity distributions reveal two dissociation pathways. The first proceeds through a well-established transition state to produce rotationally excited CO and vibrationally cold H2. The second dissociation pathway yields rotationally cold CO in conjunction with highly vibrationally excited H2. Quasiclassical trajectory calculations performed on a global potential energy surface for$H_{2}CO$suggest that this second channel represents an intramolecular hydrogen abstraction mechanism: One hydrogen atom explores large regions of the potential energy surface before bonding with the second H atom, bypassing the saddle point entirely.