Concurrent Ion—Molecule Reactions. I. Reactions in X—CD4 Mixtures

Abstract
A ratio‐plot method, whereby the contribution of concurrent ion—molecule reactions to the same product ion may be estimated, has been applied to the study of the formation of the XD+ ion in X—CD4 mixtures for X=CO, N2, and CO2. It is shown that XD+ is formed by both deuteron transfer from CD4+ and by deuterium atom abstraction by X+. The cross sections for the individual reactions have been determined and compared with theory.

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