A crossed-beam study of the reaction C(1D)+H2(X1Σ+,υ=0)→CH(X2Π,υ′)+H(2S)

Product angular and time-of-flight distributions have been measured for the first time for the prototypical insertion reaction C(D-1) + H-2 using the crossed-beam technique with mass spectrometric detection at the collision energy of 1.86 kcal mol(-1). Center-of-mass angular and kinetic energy distributions have been derived for CH(X(2)Pi, nu', = 0) + H products and compared with those of statistical calculations based on phase-space theory. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.