Quasiclassical calculation of the chemical reaction Ba+CH3I

This paper reports the quasiclassical trajectory (QCT) calculations on extended London–Eyring–Polanyi–Sato (LEPS) potential energy surface (PES) for the reaction of Ba atom with CH₃I. In the calculations, the Sato parameters needed in construction of the reaction PES are obtained from simulation of experimental results of BaI product vibrational distributions. The parameters obtained are further tested by comparison of the calculated BaI vibrational distributions with another research group's experimental results at different collision energy. In addition, the reaction cross-section versus collision energy, product BaI angular distribution and alignment are obtained by QCT calculations on the PES. The possible reaction configurations are also discussed upon the calculations.