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Chemical kinetics of geminal recombination

Journal Article · · Kinet. Catal. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:6083372
The kinetics of geminal recombination of triplet radical pairs formed in photoreduction of benzophenone by p-cresol in glycerin solution was studied by pulsed laser photolysis. The experiments were conducted at several temperatures and in a constant magnetic field of H = 0.34 T. The parameters in six kinetic equations describing geminal recombination were determined with a computer. The values of the sums of the squares of the residual deviations of the approximation were obtained. It was found that the kinetics are best described by the functions proposed by Noyes and Shushin. It was shown that it is necessary to use the mutual diffusion coefficient of the radicals, which is significantly smaller than the sum of the estimations of the experimental values of the radical diffusion coefficients, for describing the kinetics due to the correlations of the molecular motions of the radicals in the cage.
Research Organization:
Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow (USSR)
OSTI ID:
6083372
Journal Information:
Kinet. Catal. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Kinet. Catal. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 29:2; ISSN KICAA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English