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Adam Trevitt

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Isomer-Specific Product Detection Of Cn Radical Reactions With Ethene And Propene By Tunable Vuv Photoionization Mass Spectrometry, Adam Trevitt, Fabien Goulay, Giovanni Meloni, David Osborn, Craig Taatjes, Stephen Leone Jul 2013

Isomer-Specific Product Detection Of Cn Radical Reactions With Ethene And Propene By Tunable Vuv Photoionization Mass Spectrometry, Adam Trevitt, Fabien Goulay, Giovanni Meloni, David Osborn, Craig Taatjes, Stephen Leone

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Pyrolysis Of Fulvenallene (C7h6) And Fulvenallenyl (C7h5): Theoretical Kinetics And Experimental Product Detection, Adam Trevitt, G Da Silva, M Steinbauer, P Hemberger Jul 2013

Pyrolysis Of Fulvenallene (C7h6) And Fulvenallenyl (C7h5): Theoretical Kinetics And Experimental Product Detection, Adam Trevitt, G Da Silva, M Steinbauer, P Hemberger

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Fulvenallene and fulvenallenyl are the respective C7H6 and C7H5 global minima, yet their importance to combustion has only recently emerged. We have studied the pyrolysis of these species theoretically to obtain rate constants and compare our results to pyrolysis mass spectrometry experiments for product identification. Master equation modeling reveals that fulvenallene rapidly dissociates to fulvenallenyl + H, and that fulvenallenyl dissociates to form propargyl plus diacetylene, with lesser amounts of i-C5H3 (CH2CCCCH)/n-C5H3 (CHCCHCCH) plus acetylene. Photoionization mass spectrometry experiments using a pyrolysis source on the fulvenallene precursor phthalide identify products consistent with those proposed theoretically for both fulvenallene and fulvenallenyl …


Reactions Of Small Carbon-Bearing Radicals With Unsaturated Hydrocarbons: Product Detection And Low Temperature Kinetics, Adam Trevitt, Fabien Goulay, Stephen Leone Jul 2013

Reactions Of Small Carbon-Bearing Radicals With Unsaturated Hydrocarbons: Product Detection And Low Temperature Kinetics, Adam Trevitt, Fabien Goulay, Stephen Leone

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We report on results from two experimental techniques concerned with the reactions of small carbon based radicals (CN and CH) with unsaturated hydrocarbons. First, low temperature (100-300K) kinetic studies using a pulse Laval nozzle technique probe the reactions of the CN radical with benzene and toluene. The CN + benzene is found to be a fast, barrierless reaction. But in the case of toluene, two reaction pathways are in competition, one of which back dissociates to the reactants. The implications for the atmosphere of Titan are discussed. Product detection studies undertaken at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) using synchrotron coupled …