Product state(s)-resolved differential cross section of the reaction O(1D)+HD→OH(v,j)+D

The Doppler-selected time-of-flight method was applied to map out directly the differential cross sections of the title reaction. These new results supersede those reported earlier from this laboratory using the conventional Doppler-shift technique. More significantly, clear structures are now revealed, which correspond to a series of subgroups of partially resolved states of OH(v,j). They offer considerable promise in unraveling the complicated dynamical attributes associated with the two microscopic pathways, insertion and abstraction, which play in this reaction.