The possible existence of a complex-forming pathway for the H+O(2) reaction has been investigated by means of both quantum mechanical and statistical techniques. Reaction probabilities, integral cross sections, and differential cross sections have been obtained with a statistical quantum method and the mean potential phase space theory. The statistical predictions are compared to exact results ...

Photoionization methods have been used to study the reactions of the molecular ion in vinyl fluoride to yield the ionic products C3H 3F{, C3H 4F+, and C3Ht. Quantitative measurements are reported of the effect of the vibrational state of the reactant ion on the product distribution and overall reaction cross section. Reaction cross sections for all three channels decrease with reactant internal...

We have studied the cross-reaction with Borrelia burgdorferi of sera positive for leptospirosis, syphilis, or human immunodeficiency virus by using the microimmunofluorescence test (micro-IF). The percentage of sera reactive in the micro-IF before absorption varied from 7 to 37% and was reduced to 3 to 8% after absorption with a commercial Reiter treponemal antigen. The cross-reaction of sera p...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t The cross sections of the 162 Er(α, γ) 166 Yb and 162 Er(α, n) 165 Yb reactions have been measured for the first time. The radiative alpha capture reaction cross section was measured from E c.m. = 16.09 MeV down to E c.m. = 11.21 MeV, close to the astrophysically relevant region (which lies between 7.8 and 11.48 MeV at 3 GK stellar temperature). The 162 Er(...

We measure cross-diffusion coefficients in a five-component system, an aerosol OT (AOT) water-in-oil microemulsion loaded with two constituents of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction (H(2) O/AOT/BZ1/BZ2/octane). The species BZ1 is either NaBr, an inhibitor of the BZ reaction, or ferroin, a catalyst for the reaction. As species BZ2, we choose Br(2) , an intermediate in the reaction. The cross...

A nearside/farside analysis of differential cross sections has been performed for the complex-forming SN2 reaction Cl(-) + CH3Br → ClCH3 + Br(-). It is shown that for low rotational quantum numbers a direct "nearside" reaction mechanism plays an important role and leads to anisotropic differential cross sections. For high rotational quantum numbers, indirect mechanisms via a long-lived intermed...

Cross diffusion is a phenomena in which a gradient in the concentration of one species induces a flux of another chemical species which was generally been neglected in the study of reaction-diffusion systems. We study the Turing bifurcation of two species reaction transport systems, where particle dispersal is governed by diffusion and cross diffusion. we performed linear stability analysis to ...

A defined immunological cross-reaction was observed between acetylcholine receptor fraction from the electric eel, Electrophorus electricus, and two calf thymus fractions. The cross-reaction was demonstrated on the cellular level by means of the lymphocyte transformation technique, and on the humoral level, by means of the microcomplement fixation assay. In the human disease myasthenia gravis b...