Rate constants, four-atom quantum dynamics

This brief summary of the RBA calculations on the reactions of OH with HCl and HBr has aimed to show that quantum treatment of the state-to-state aspects of a four atom reaction can yield new understanding of chemical reaction dynamics and can also provide an insight into useful quantities such as the temperature dependence of rate constants. As the RBA has been applied to reactions with more than four atoms such as OH + CH4 -> H2O + CH3 [16] and Cl + CH3Br CH3CI + Br" [17] this is clearly going to be a useful theoretical tool for the general study of chemical reactions of polyatomic molecules. 

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