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Spectroscopy And Formation Of Lanthanum-Hydrocarbon Radicals Formed By C—H And C—C Bond Activation Of 1-Pentene And 2-Pentene, Wenjin Cao, Yuchen Zhang, Silver Nyambo, Dong-Sheng Yang Jul 2018

Spectroscopy And Formation Of Lanthanum-Hydrocarbon Radicals Formed By C—H And C—C Bond Activation Of 1-Pentene And 2-Pentene, Wenjin Cao, Yuchen Zhang, Silver Nyambo, Dong-Sheng Yang

Chemistry Faculty Publications

La atom reactions with 1-pentene and 2-pentene are carried out in a laser-vaporization molecular beam source. The two reactions yield the same metal-hydrocarbon products from the dehydrogenation and carbon–carbon bond cleavage of the pentene molecules. The dehydrogenated species La(C5H8) is the major product, whereas the carbon–carbon bond cleaved species La(C2H2) and La(C3H4) are the minor ones. La(C10H18) is also observed and is presumably formed by La(C5H8) addition to a second pentene molecule. La(C5H8) and La(C2 …


Lanthanum-Mediated Dehydrogenation Of Butenes: Spectroscopy And Formation Of La(C4H6) Isomers, Wenjin Cao, Dilkrushi Hewage, Dong-Sheng Yang Jan 2018

Lanthanum-Mediated Dehydrogenation Of Butenes: Spectroscopy And Formation Of La(C4H6) Isomers, Wenjin Cao, Dilkrushi Hewage, Dong-Sheng Yang

Chemistry Faculty Publications

La atom reactions with 1-butene, 2-butene, and isobutene are carried out in a laser-vaporization molecular beam source. The three reactions yield the same La-hydrocarbon products from the dehydrogenation and carbon-carbon bond cleavage and coupling of the butenes. The dehydrogenated species La(C4H6) is the major product, which is characterized with mass-analyzed threshold ionization (MATI) spectroscopy and quantum chemical computations. The MATI spectrum of La(C4H6) produced from the La+1-butene reaction exhibits two band systems, whereas the MATI spectra produced from the La+2-butene and isobutene reactions display only a single band system. Each of these …


The Initial And Final States Of Electron And Energy Transfer Processes: Diabatization As Motivated By System-Solvent Interactions, Joseph E. Subotnik, Robert J. Cave, Ryan P. Steele, Neil Shenvi Jun 2009

The Initial And Final States Of Electron And Energy Transfer Processes: Diabatization As Motivated By System-Solvent Interactions, Joseph E. Subotnik, Robert J. Cave, Ryan P. Steele, Neil Shenvi

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

For a system which undergoes electron or energy transfer in a polar solvent, we define the diabatic states to be the initial and final states of the system, before and after the nonequilibrium transfer process. We consider two models for the system-solvent interactions: A solvent which is linearly polarized in space and a solvent which responds linearly to the system. From these models, we derive two new schemes for obtaining diabatic states from ab initio calculations of the isolated system in the absence of solvent. These algorithms resemble standard approaches for orbital localization, namely, the Boys and Edmiston–Ruedenberg (ER) formalisms. …


Simpol.1: A Simple Group Contribution Method For Predicting Vapor Pressures And Enthalpies Of Vaporization Of Multifunctional Organic Compounds, James F. Pankow, William E. Asher May 2008

Simpol.1: A Simple Group Contribution Method For Predicting Vapor Pressures And Enthalpies Of Vaporization Of Multifunctional Organic Compounds, James F. Pankow, William E. Asher

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

The SIMPOL.1 group contribution method is developed for predicting the liquid vapor pressure poL (atm) and enthalpy of vaporization Δ Hvap (kJ mol-1) of organic compounds as functions of temperature (T). For each compound i, the method assumes log10poL,i (T)=∑kνk,ibk(T) where νk,i is the number of groups of type k, and bk (T) is the contribution to log10poL,i (T) by each group of type k. A …