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Crossed molecular beam studies of ion-molecule reactions

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:5515052
A crossed molecular beam instrument is employed to study the energy and angular resolved scattering of the products of a number of ion-molecular reactions. The reactions studied are proton transfer from formyl cation to water, methanol and ethanol, and proton transfer from hydronium cation to methanol and ethanol. Relative collision energies range from a few tenths of an eV to several eV. Reactant ion beams are produced by electron impact or chemical ionization while neutral reactants are seeded in H/sub 2/, which is then expanded in a supersonic molecular beam source. Product ions are energy and mass analyzed and the raw data is transformed to center of mass, doubly-differential relative cross-sections.
Research Organization:
Rochester Univ., NY (USA)
OSTI ID:
5515052
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English