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Four Isotope-Labeled Recombination Pathways Of Ozone Formation, Dmitri Babikov, Elizaveta Grushnikova, Igor Gayday, Alexander Teplukhin

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

A theoretical approach is developed for the description of all possible recombination pathways in the ozone forming reaction, without neglecting any process a priori, and without decoupling the individual pathways one from another. These pathways become physically distinct when a rare isotope of oxygen is introduced, such as ¹⁸O, which represents a sensitive probe of the ozone forming reaction. Each isotopologue of O₃ contains two types of physically distinct entrance channels and two types of physically distinct product wells, creating four recombination pathways. Calculations are done for singly and doubly substituted isotopologues of ozone, eight rate coefficients …