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The reaction H + SiD4→ D + SiH3D is found to have a much lower threshold than the corresponding exchange reaction of H with CD4. The D atom carries away most of the initial translational energy of the H atom. When the H-atom velocity distribution is anisotropic, the D-atom velocity distribution is anisotropic in the same sense. The exchange cross-sections for the reaction H + SiH3D are about one half of those for SiD4. All this evidence leads to the conclusion that the mechanism of the exchange is an inversion.
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Katz et al. (1991) studied this question.
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