DOI: 10.5176/2339-5060_1.1.8
Authors: Steven A. Adelman
Abstract:
This review provides an overview of some central concepts and techniques of chemical dynamics, the subfield of chemical kinetics devoted to the study of molecular rate processes at the level of atomic motions. Specifically, reviews are given of the experimental methods of molecular beam scattering, which aims at inferring what occurs during a reactive collision from the post collision attributes of the products; infrared chemiluminescence, which provides the rotational and vibrational state distributions of the nascent products; and transition state spectroscopy which in the most favorable cases can provide “movies” of systems as they pass from reactants to products.
Keywords: Chemical Dynamics, Infrared Chemiluminescence, Molecular Beam, Scattering, Transition State Spectroscopy
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