| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K67045/01 |
| Title: |
ROVIBRATIONAL ENERGY TRANSFER AN ROATATIONAL EFFECTS ON BIMOLECULAR REACTIONS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Smith, Professor I |
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| Department: |
School of Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Birmingham |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 July 1996 |
Ends: |
30 June 1999 |
Value (£): |
146,252
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Gas & Solution Phase Reactions |
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The proposed experiments will use an infrared (IR)-ultraviolet (UV) double resonance technique to measure the rates of a number of molecular processes involving small molecules at the state-to-state level. Tunable pulses of IR radiation from an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) will promote molecules to specific rovibronic levels and a tunable UV laser will follow the kinetics of these species via laser-induced fluorescence techniques. This method will be used to discover the relaxation pathways in HCN and C2H2. Then, in the second and third parts of the programme, we shall explore the behaviour of radicals created by pulsed laser photolysis and then promoted to selected levels using the OPO. This method will be used to examine the rates of relaxation between CH and species with which CH reacts rapidly (e.g. O2 and C2H2) depend on the rational state of the radical.
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http://www.bham.ac.uk |