Probes of the Transition State

在实验物理化学计划的支持下， Bersohn教授使用分子束和 激光制备和探测技术来研究 最基本的气相双分子反应过程。 结果 从这些详细的和良好的特点研究援助， 深入了解反应的最基本方面 动力学 光解制备的快速原子和自由基正在被 在简单的反应中研究， 通过激光诱导荧光技术探测产物， 有时速度剖面的多普勒分辨率。 作为初始值函数测量的产品分布 碰撞能量和产物排列数据也被用于 作为反应过程细节的附加探针。

With support from the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program, Professor Bersohn uses a combination of molecular beam and laser preparation and probing techniques to investigate the most basic gas phase bimolecular reaction processes. Results from these detailed and well-characterized studies aid in gaining insight into the most fundamental aspects of reaction dynamics. Photolytically prepared fast atoms and radicals are being studied in simple reactions whose internal state resolved products are probed by laser induced fluorescence techniques, sometimes with Doppler resolution of the velocity profiles. Product distributions measured as a function of initial collision energy and product alignment data are also being used as additional probes of the details of the reaction process.