Product state distribution radiation

By using either a continuous or pulsed source of radiation and by measuring the amount of radiation absorbed by the reaction products, it is possible to determine product state distributions. The source of radiation can either be monochromatic (resonance lamp or laser) or broad-band (flash lamp or arc lamp) used in conjunction with a form of monochromator at the detector. The amount of absorption is monitored by an appropriate photosensitive or energy-sensitive detector. Particular care must be taken in the case of resonance lamps to avoid self-reversal of the output of the source, as this will complicate the quantitative analysis of product densities [17]. Similarly, laser sources must not be operated at such high output powers that the transitions involved become saturated, as this also complicates the analysis. Absorption measurements can be used for a wide range of reaction products, both ground and excited states of atoms, radicals and molecules [9,17, 22]. 

Details of studies of the kinetics and dynamics of elementary reactions involving atomic species are provided in Table 12. Although many of these deal only with kinetics or dynamics and appear to have little connection with photoprocesses , it will be found that such studies have made use of radiation in some way-to initiate a reaction or to probe a product state distribution,... 

Laser spectroscopic methods are widely used to investigate the product state distribution of a chemical reaction. A well-established technique to achieve this objective is LIF, first applied to molecular beam reactions by Zare and co-workers (Cruse et al., 1973). This powerful technique can be more easily understood with the aid of Figure 23.2. Here, we can see how radiation from a tuneable laser is directed to the crossed-beam volume of the reaction A + BC AB + C. 

The over-all results in radiation chemistry can be expected to differ from those in discharge chemistry because of two essentially different groups of facts, namely those associated with the initial physical aspects and those associated with what, for convenience, we hereinafter call chemical physics, namely those processes in the exposed material which involve the actual production and distribution of different excited states. The classes of effects are summarized in Tables I and II. 

Chemiluminescence. In this method, radiation emitted by excited products is spectroscopically analyzed as it is emitted. The intensities of radiation due to various transitions can be used to determine the population distribution for product states. Modem techniques also allow time-resolved spectra to be observed (intensity as a function of time as well as of wavelength). Measurements in the picosecond region are becoming common and femtosecond measurements are being carried out. 

For opaque materials, the reflectance p is the complement of the absorptance. The directional distribution of the reflected radiation depends on the material, its degree of roughness or grain size, and, if a metal, its state of oxidation. Polished surfaces of homogeneous materials reflect speciilarly. In contrast, the intensity of the radiation reflected from a perfectly diffuse, or Lambert, surface is independent of direction. The directional distribution of reflectance of many oxidized metals, refractoiy materials, and natural products approximates that of a perfectly diffuse reflector. A better model, adequate for many calculational purposes, is achieved by assuming that the total reflectance p is the sum of diffuse and specular components p i and p. ... 

Compared with chemical cross-linking of PE, radiation curing produces a different product in many respects. The chemical cross-linking is done at temperatures near 125°C (257°F), where the polymer is in the molten state. Consequently, the cross-link density in the chemically cross-linked polyethylene is almost uniformly distributed, while there are relatively few cross-links in the crystalline fraction of the radiation cross-linked PE. The crystalline fraction of the radiation-processed polyethylene is greater than that in the chemically cured product. ... 

In the case of a metal substrate, the experimental evidence shows that metal excitation is dominated by surface photon absorption. Optical radiation excites surface charge carriers, usually free or sub-vacuum-level electrons that can efficiently couple to the adsorbate. This often leads to enhanced photolysis cross sections or altered product distributions. Excitation localized on the adsorbed molecule in close proximity to a metallic solid may efficiently couple to the electronic states of the surface, leading to excitation quenching. When light-absorbing molecules are separated from the surface by spacer molecules, the influence of the surface on molecular excitation and relaxation decreases [4,21],... 

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