Kinetics of Hydrogen Abstraction by Mu Reactivity with Propane studied by RF Resonance

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Hydrogen abstraction reactions are key steps in free radical mechanisms that dominate the combustion and atmospheric chemistry of the alkane hydrocarbons and, as such, merit study for their relevance to current environmental concerns. The lower mass alkanes also provide important test cases for H-atom reaction rate theory for polyatomic systems. Due to its remarkably light muon mass, studies of Mu reactivity provide unique tests of quantum mass effects in rate theory. Abstraction rates for propane are ~0.1MHz around RT, and are therefore be accessible provided RF resonance techniques are employed. Previous work has established a suitable methodology for this novel experiment, and time is requested to complete a study measuring both the rate constant and activation energy for propane. Work is also planned to continue the development of RF techniques for measuring slow reactions rates.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24085972
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24085972
Provenance
Creator Dr Stephen Cottrell; Dr Iain McKenzie; Professor Don Fleming
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-05-31T14:33:07Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-06-08T08:03:47Z