Asymmetry of molecular reactive collision of the DTO molecules

Based on the potential energy function which considers the nuclear motion and isotopic effect of DTO (X1A1), the atomic and molecular reactive collision for O+DT has been studied by Monte-Carlo quasi-classical trajectory approach. It is shown that the reaction O+DT→DTO with a long-lived complex compound has no threshold energy at low collision energy, which agrees with the potential surface. When the collision energy is higher than 209.2 kJ·mol-1, the interchange reactions will start and then increase until DTO molecules are decomposed completely into D, T, O with the collision energy increasing. The interchange reactions O+DT(0, 0)→OD+T and O+DT (0, 0)→OT+D have corresponding threshold energies. The trajectories and collision section of interchange reactions show asymmetrical distribution which corresponds to the potential surface.