Rate coefficient calculation

The END equations are integrated to yield the time evolution of the wave function parameters for reactive processes from an initial state of the system. The solution is propagated until such a time that the system has clearly reached the final products. Then, the evolved state vector may be projected against a number of different possible final product states to yield coiresponding transition probability amplitudes. Details of the END dynamics can be depicted and cross-section cross-sections and rate coefficients calculated. 

In Table 211 some rate coefficients calculated according to these dependencies... 

It is appropriate to estimate the error involved in such a complex procedure. The simplest empirical approach is to compare standard rate coefficients calculated for the same compound from different sets of data (at different temperatures or from different areas of the rate profiles). Most of the variation lies within 0.3 log units from the mean value, and it has therefore been assumed that the maximum error should be 0.35 log units [78JCS(P2)861], this being subject to the qualification noted above regarding the assumption of a constant AH value. 

Fig. 4.5. Effective rate coefficients calculated with the present CR-model with (full curve) and without (dashed curve) taking into account the vibrational population...

A comparison between the overall rate coefficients, calculated in different ways, and those recommended by Atkinson et al [89] is provided in Table 12.1 and Figure 12.3. All the theoretical calculations were performed within the CTST approach. As these results show, taking into account the reactant complexes and the intramolecular interactions in the transition structures in the modeling of alcohols + OH radical reactions in gas phase, improve the agreement of the theoretical calculations with the experimental data. 

This ester resembles its methyl homologue in possessing three modes of decomposition [131]. It also supports a self-decomposition flame, the multiple reaction zones of which are clearly separated at low pressures [122, 123, 125]. Temperature and composition profiles in the low-pressure decomposition flame have been measured [133]. The products include formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and ethanol with smaller amounts of methane and nitromethane. The activation energy derived from the variation of flame speed with final flame temperature was 38 kcal. mole", close to the dissociation energy of the RO—NO2 bond. The controlling reaction is believed to be unimolecular in its low pressure regime, and the rate coefficient calculated from the heat-release profile is... 

On this basis the rate coefficient of (10) is estimated as 7.2 x 10 P.mole". sec in quite good agreement with a rate coefficient calculated from work of Britton and Cole and Ip and Burns . 

A shock-tube investigation of the H2-Br2 and D2-Br2 systems has been carried out by Britton and Cole in the temperature range 1300-1700 °K. The reaction was followed by spectrophotometric measurement of Br2 concentrations at 5000 A and rate coefficient calculations for Br-1-H2 - HBr-l-H were based on measurements at 25 % decomposition of Br2- For the reaction... 

NXv, the value of N (e) when + = kT, was used since A (e) is not a strongly varying function of e+. The collisional efficiencies of He and SF were assumed to be 0.15 and 1.0, as for HNO3, and the collision diameter of HNO2 was taken to be 5.2 A. The experimental and predicted values of ks and k a are shown in table 2. The rate coefficients calculated with model B" agree more closely with the experimental values than those computed with A". At 80 Torr He, A 5[He] = 1.2 x 10 cm molecule- s (model B") or 0.47x 10 cm molecule" s (model A"). Clearly the assumption that this recombination reaction is in its third order region when / hc < 80 Torr is fully justified. 

It is clear that the two methods of weighting differ greatly and in consequence the rate coefficient calculated from a given set of data on the basis of the first method is not exactly the same as that calculated using the second method. 

If the data pass the F-test, there can be little doubt of the correctness of the assumed rate expression. The best value of the rate coefficient calculated in this way is H, viz. 

For the H + CH4 reaction, it is shown that (a) there is substantial difference between the reaction probability calculated with the new ab initio global PES versus the semi-empirical Jordan-Gilbert PES, (b) CH4 molecules with an excited CH bond stretch have high reactivity and accounts laigely for the overall reaetivity of CH4 above 450K, and (c) the thermal rate coefficients calculated with the ab initio global PES agree very well with experimental data. 

Figure 4.22 Measured rate coefficients at 25 C for a ferrocene/ferricenium derivative tethered at a fixed distance ( 20 A) from a gold electrode surface within an alkane thiol monolayer for four different samples (symbols), together with rate coefficients calculated from eqs. 4.63 and4.64 with 2, = 0.85 eV and the prefactor (2n = 6.73 x tO s eV. From Chidsey (1991).

The thermal rate coefficients calculated for the inverse power law excitation functions for the (04)o state on both the WSLFH and the OC potential surfaces are in very good agreement with the experiments [23]... 

Thermal Plasma Conversion of CoaL Compare production of CO and CO2 by oxidation of coke in reactions (10-32) and (10-33) in thermal plasma conditions. Taking into accormt relation (10-34) between the coke oxidation rate coefficients, calculate temperatures at which CO and CO2 production becomes equal at relatively low and relatively high pressures. 

Magnetic-Quenching Rate Coefficients Calculated Using the Delta-Function Approximation... 

A comparison of the results obtained using model II and model HI showed that a discussion of the termination mechanism based on rate coefficients calculated under... 

Figure 4.6. Effect of double-bond conversion on the monomolecular termination rate coefficient calculated from the monomolecular termination model (1) and mixed termination model (III). Monomer, diethylene glycol dimethacrylate. Conditions Ar, 40°C initiator, Irgacure 651,0.06 M. Data taken from Ref. [30].

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