State-to-state chemiluminescence in reactions of Mn atoms with S2Cl2.

A combined experimental and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) investigation of the title reaction is presented. Both 'hot' and 'cold' laser-ablated Mn atom beams have been employed to determine the translational excitation functions for production of MnCl*(c(5)Σ(+), d(5)Π, e(5)Δ, e(5)Σ(+), A(7)Π). Analysis in terms of the multiple line-of-centres approach shows that the 'hot' results are dominated by reactions of the second metastable state of Mn, z(8)P(J), all with very low thresholds; while the first metastable state, a(6)D(J), and the ground state, a(6)S, are the precursors in the 'cold' results, all with significant excess barriers.