Time-resolved kinetic studies of the reactions of silylene, SiH(2), and dideutero-silylene, SiD(2), generated by laser flash photolysis of phenylsilane and phenylsilane-d(3), respectively, have been carried out to obtain rate coefficients for their bimolecular reactions with 2-butyne, CH(3)C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CCH(3). The reactions were studied in the gas phase over the pressure rang...

The aminomethyl (•CH 2 NH ) radical is generated from the photo-oxidation of methylamine in troposphere and an important precursor for new particle formation. effect ammonia water on gas-phase formation methanimine (CH NH) • CH + O reaction not known. Therefore, this study, potential energy surfaces (+NH 3 /H O) were constructed using ab initio //DFT, i.e., coupled - cluster theory (CCSD(T))//h...

by Rudy Marcus, Nobel prize-winner: Professor Rudolph A Marcus. The field of unimolecular reactions and bimolecular recombination processes [1–8] has undergone a number of changes during the past 90 or so years. In the middle 1920s, the theories of Hinshelwood, Rice/Ramsperger, and Kassel were developed at a time when little was known about potential energy surfaces. So the theory was phrased i...

The collisionless photodissociation dynamics of isobutene (i-C(4)H(8)) at 193 nm via photofragment translational spectroscopy are reported. Two major photodissociation channels were identified: H + C(4)H(7) and CH(3) + CH(3)CCH(2). Translational energy distributions indicate that both channels result from statistical decay on the ground state surface. Although the CH(3) loss channel lies 13 kca...

The gas-phase fragmentation of protonated phenylalanine and a series of its derivatives (tyrosine, 4-methylphenylalanine, 4-aminophenylalanine, 4-methoxyphenylalanine, 4-tert-butylphenylalanine, 4-fluorophenylalanine, 4-chlorophenylalanine, 4-bromophenylalanine, 4-iodophenylalanine, 4-cyanophenylalanine, 4-nitrophenylalanine, 3-fluorophenylalanine, and 3,4-dichlorophenylalanine) were examined u...