| Abstract
| - This article presents theoretical methods for the description of the directional effect of reactant rotation onthe reactivity of atom−diatom systems and suggests an experiment that could be used to test theoreticalpredictions. The theory can be used in conjunction with both quantum reactive scattering and quasiclassicaltrajectory calculations, and is stated in general terms, which allows it to deal with arbitrary reactant polarizations.The illustrative results obtained for the benchmark H + D2 reaction are also presented and show that underexperimentally achievable conditions one can largely control reactive cross sections and product statedistributions, while at the same time gaining valuable and at times surprising information on the reactionmechanism.
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