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Mechanism Of Two Homogeneous Reactions; Co Self Exchange And N2 Self Exchange, Alan L. Rockwood
Mechanism Of Two Homogeneous Reactions; Co Self Exchange And N2 Self Exchange, Alan L. Rockwood
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The two atom switching reactions referred to in the title were originally studied at temperatures greater than 2000°K in shock tubes by other investigators. For each reaction they proposed a direct four-center exchange mechanism in which one of the reactant molecules must be vibrationally excited, (the vibrational excitation mechanism or VEM). One of the predictions of the VEM is that molecules which are vibrationally hot but translationally cold should react through the four center transition state that leads to exchange.
Using a mercury photosensitization technique, it is shown in the present work that excitation of CO to high vibrational levels …