Electronically Excited Molecules: Reaction Kinetics and Emission of Light: Nanosecond Infrared Spectroscopy, Electronic Emission from Chemical Reactions
Abstract
A time-resolved IR absorption spectrometer capable of detecting chemical transients on the nanosecond timescale was designed, constructed, and successfully implemented. The spectrometer was used to characterize the vibrational relaxation of an open shell radical species, CF3, produced with excess energy from the photolysis of the parent CF3I compound. The effects of vibrational excitation in the CF3 radical on the reaction CF3 + Br2 yields CF3Br + Br were measured. Broadband data collection techniques were used to monitor the reactive and relaxation pathways simultaneously. The energetic radicals react no faster than the thermalized CF3 and may actually have a lower cross section for reaction. The spectrometer was also used to detect the gas phase absorption spectra of the polyatomic radicals. A thorough investigation into ozone-olefin reactions in a cryogenic matrix environment was completed. It was possible to complex ozone with various olefinic partners through careful control of the matrix deposition process, despite the very low (1-5 kcal/mole) activation energies for the ozonolysis reactions. The ground state complexes were observed to form a charge-transfer (CT) complex upon excitation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 24, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA255642
Entities
People
- C. B. Moore
Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley