In this chapter, the chiral molecule Methyloxirane is studied using femtosecond multi-photon ionization at 400 nm in combination with masscorrelated photoelectron coincidence imaging. The ion time-of-flight spectrum and the mass-correlated photoelectron kinetic energy distribution are discussed. The appearance energy of the parent ion and the fragment ion C2H + 4 in multi-photon excitation is r...

Kinetic study of free fatty acids (FFAs) esterification for biodiesel production from palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) using sulfated zirconia (S-ZrO2) prepared by solvent-free method calcined at low temperature as the heterogeneous catalyst was studied. The reaction was performed in a batch-stirred reactor at the different temperature to obtain the kinetic data. The effect of reaction conditi...

Hydrogen atom transfer reactions between the aldose and ketose are key mechanistic features in formose chemistry by which formaldehyde is converted to higher sugars under credible prebiotic conditions. For one of these transformations, we have investigated whether hydrogen tunneling makes a significant contribution to the mechanism by examining the deuterium kinetic isotope effect associated wi...