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The combination of crossed beams with kinematically complete velocity map imaging is a powerful tool to obtain experimental insight into reaction dynamics. The obtained differential cross sections can be linked to atomistic reaction mechanisms. We are investigating reactive scattering of CH$_3$I with atomic oxygen anions. Energy dependent experiments ranging from 0.4 eV to 2 eV relative collision energy revealed four reaction pathways with different atomistic mechanisms. Here we report recent results on the reaction of a radical anion reaction: O- reacting with CH$_3$I. We discuss energy-dependent differential cross sections and branching ratios for four observed, competing reaction pathways.