Abstract A single-pulse shock tube study of the four pentene isomers is carried out at 2?±?0.16?bar and 900–1600?K. C1 to C6 species profiles were recorded using gas chromatography mass spectrometry analyses. The are identified quantified by flame ionization detection. High-pressure limiting pressure-dependent rate constants for 2M1B, 2M2B 3M1B?+?? calculated RRKM theory with a Master Equation ...

The reactions of small gold cluster cations Au(x)(+) (x=2-6) with CH(4) were studied by joint gas-phase kinetics and first-principles density functional theory calculations. The experimentally obtained temperature-dependent low pressure rate constants were analyzed by employing the Lindemann energy transfer model for association reactions in conjunction with statistical RRKM theory. In this way...

Motivated by the necessity to understand the pyrolysis of alkylated amines, unimolecular decomposition of acetamide is investigated herein as a model compound. Standard heats of formation, entropies, and heat capacities, are calculated for all products and transition structures using several accurate theoretical levels. The potential energy surface is mapped out for all possible channels encoun...

Using quantum chemical methods, we have explored the region of the C6H8 potential energy surface that is relevant in predicting the rate coefficients of various wells and major product channels following the reaction between cyclopentadienyl radical and methyl radical, c-C5H5 + CH3. Variational transition state theory is used to calculate the high-pressure-limit rate coefficient for all of the ...

The femtosecond real-time dynamics of the isomerization reaction of trans-stilbene under collisionless conditions are studied using (2+1) resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) and femtosecond depletion spectroscopy (FDS) in a pump-probe scheme. The observed transients reflect the macroscopic sample anisotropy decay (rotational coherence) and intramolecular vibrational energy redistr...