LASER TEMPERATURE-JUMP STUDIES OF FAST REACTIONS.

Abstract

A ruby laser was assembled from commercial components for use as a single-pulse, source of heat in temperature-jump relaxation kinetic studies of very rapid reactions in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions. Preliminary results were obtained with an aqueous uranyl ion monomerdimer equilibrium to which copper nitrate was added. A neodymium doped glass laser rod radiating at 1.06 microns was not found satisfactory for the same purpose. A concurrent investigation of a fast protolytic reaction in water and D2O by the conventional Joule heating temperature-jump method yielded solvent D2O kinetic isotope effect data with ramifications for enzyme kinetics. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 29, 1965
Accession Number
AD0628027

Entities

People

  • Edward M. Eyring

Organizations

  • University of Utah

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aqueous Solutions
  • Chemical Compounds
  • Enzyme Kinetics
  • Glass Lasers
  • Kinetics
  • Lasers
  • Neodymium
  • Ruby Lasers
  • Water

Readers

  • Electrochemical Engineering/ Fuel Cell Technologies
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy