| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N02436/01 |
| Title: |
THE FORMATION AND REACTIONS OF HYDROGEN IN SPECIFIC ROVIBRATIONAL STATES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Smith, Professor I |
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| Department: |
School of Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Birmingham |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 July 2000 |
Ends: |
30 September 2003 |
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144,850
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| Gas & Solution Phase Reactions |
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Reactive collisions involving H2 are of great fundamental interest. Experiments at the state-to-state level are not straightforward because H2 is infrared inactive (and so cannot be excited by direct absorption) and its state-specific detection requires multiphoton or vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) laser techniques. The methods of stimulated Raman pumping to promote H2 to specific (v, J) levels and of VUV laser-induced fluorescence to follow the kinetics of these state-selected species will be installed in our laboratory. The standard Raman technique will be extended in order to prepare H2 in rovibrational levels other than v=1, J=1).Two major series of experiments will yield:(a) rate constants for the reactions of vibrationally excited H2 with 0 atoms, and with OH and CN radicals(b) State-to-state rate constants for the prototypical 4-atom reactions H + H2O = OH + H2 and H + HCN = CN + H2, which have attracted much recent theoretical attention.
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