Observation of a reactive resonance in the integral cross section of a six-atom reaction:: F+CHD3

The title reaction was investigated under crossed-beam conditions at collisional energies ranging from about 0.4 to 7.5 kcal/mol. Product velocity distributions were measured by a time-sliced, velocity-map imaging technique to explicitly account for the density-to-flux transformation factors. Both the state-resolved, pair-correlated excitation functions and vibrational branching ratios are presented for the two isotopic product channels. An intriguing resonance tunneling mechanism occurring near the reaction threshold for the HF+CD3 product channel is surmized, which echoes the reactive resonances found previously for the F+HD-->HF+D reaction and more recently for the F+CH4 reaction. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.