Potential Energy Surfaces for Reactions of X Metal Atoms (X = Cu, Zn, Cd, Ga, Al, Au, or Hg) with YH4 Molecules (Y = C, Si, or Ge) and Transition Probabilities at Avoided Crossings in Some Cases : Figure 9

Figure 9: Potential energy curves of the Cd(¹S, ¹P) interaction with SiH₄ as a function of the insertion angle () towards the HCdSiH₃ intermediate product. The 5p¹ character follows the path from the second excited state to the minimum in the X ¹A′ state, where the final products are formed.