| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N38084/01 |
| Title: |
VELOCITY MAPPING OF ELEMENTARY CHEMICAL REACTIONS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Brouard, Professor M |
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| Department: |
Oxford Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 2000 |
Ends: |
30 September 2003 |
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140,181
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Gas & Solution Phase Reactions |
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| No relevance to Underpinning Sectors |
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The H3O reactive system has been the subject of enormous theoretical attention in recent years. With the ever increasing sophistication of dynamical calculations, time is now ripe for a systematic experimental study of the bimolecular reaction dynamics of the forward and reverse abstraction reactions H + H2O < -- > OH + H2 (v', j'). Study of these reactions is therefore the primary objective of our study.We propose a new series of experiments exploiting the photon-initiated bimolecular reactin technique, in which translationally excited, aligned OH, O(1D), or H will be generated by polarised laser photolysis of suitable precurser molecules. The dynamics of the reactions will be interrogated by probing the CH3 (v', j') radical, H atom or H2(v', j') products of reaction using resonantly enhanced multiphoton ionisation coupled with the ion imaging (velocity mapping) technique.In the first year of the program we will develop and test the apparatus on the O(1D) + CH4 --- > OH + CH3 (v', j') reaction, while in the final year of the programme we will turn to a study of the H2(v', j') quantum state resolved dynamics of the simplest H atom plus alkane reaction H + CH4 --- > CH3 + H2 (v', j').
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