Reactive and inelastic scattering of H2+D2 using a London-type potential energy surface

Abstract
Collisions between hydrogen and deuterium molecules are studied using quasiclassical dynamical trajectory calculations with the intermolecular field specified by a London‐type potential‐energy surface. The occurrence of chemical exchange reactions to form two HD molecules is found to be extremely sensitive to the initial relative orientations of the reactant molecules. Nonreactive collisions are examined for energy transfer processes in terms of average final state energy distribution.