Selectivity in Chemical Reactions

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Selectivity in Elementary Chemical Reactions....Pages 1-21
Laser Studies on the Selectivity of Elementary Chemical Reactions: Products, Energy, Orientation....Pages 23-45
Rotational and Steric Effects in Three Centre Reactions....Pages 47-78
Selectivity of Translational Excitation in Reactive Collisions. The Alkaline Plus Alkyl Halide Reaction Family....Pages 79-94
The Effect of Changing Reagent Translation on Reaction Dynamics: F + CF 3 I → IF + CF 3 ....Pages 95-104
Internal Energy Distributions in AlO Given by the Reactions of Aluminium Atoms with Several Oxidant Molecules....Pages 105-116
The Effect of Electronic Excitation in the Reactions of Oxygen Atoms with Simple Hydride Molecules....Pages 117-133
Laser Studies of Reaction Dynamics: The Ca* + HF → CaF(X 2 Σ + ,v) + H and Ca* + SF 6 → CaF(X 2 Σ + ,v) + SF 5 Reactions....Pages 135-146
Spin-Orbit Effects in Chemical Reactions....Pages 147-177
Open Shell Atomic Beam Scattering and the Spin Orbit Dependence of Potential Energy Surfaces....Pages 179-194
Reactive Scattering with Oriented Molecules: Selectivity in the Ba + N 2 O → BaO* + N 2 Reaction....Pages 195-220
Product Alignment in Reactive, Inelastic and Half-Collisions....Pages 221-244
Alignment Effects in Electronic Energy Transfer and Reactive Events....Pages 245-263
Fundamental Considerations in the Study of Inelastic and Reactive Collisions Involving Atoms in 1 P Electronic States....Pages 265-305
Ionizing Collisions of Fast K Atoms with Oriented Symmetric Top Molecules: Preliminary Results....Pages 307-310
Saturation in Laser-Induced Fluorescence: Detection of Nascent Product Rotational Angular Momentum Alignment....Pages 311-321
Investigation of the Orientation Dependence of the F + H 2 Reaction Using Scaled Barrier Functions in the Angle-Dependent Line-of-Centres Model....Pages 323-339
Chemistry and van der Waals Complexes....Pages 341-352
A Theoretical Study of the Oriented Reaction HBr·CO 2 + hv → OH + CO + Br....Pages 353-364
Reactions of Molecular Ions in Association with Inert Gas Clusters....Pages 365-372
Accuracy and Availability of Potential Energy Surfaces....Pages 373-377
The Calculation of Potential Energy Surfaces for Reactive Systems....Pages 379-391
Electronic Deexcitation of OH(A 2 Σ + ) with CO(X 1 Σ + ): An Ab Initio Study....Pages 393-402
Direct Use of the Diatomics-in-Molecules Method in Large Systems and in Dynamical Calculations....Pages 403-416
Spin-Orbit Interaction on Potential Energy Surfaces Involving Halogen Atoms....Pages 417-426
Branching Ratios in Chemical Reactions....Pages 427-455
The M + X 2 Reactions: Paradigms of Selectivity and Specificity in Electronic Multi-Channel Reactions....Pages 457-479
The Role of Selective Chemical Reactions in Laser Technology....Pages 481-495
State Selective Chemiluminescent Reactions for Chemical Laser Applications....Pages 497-513
The Characterisation of the Mechanism of IF(B) Production in Fluorine/ Iodide Systems....Pages 515-523
IF(A-X, B-X) Chemiluminescence of Fluorine-Iodide Systems in a Crossed Molecular Beam Experiment....Pages 525-529
Unexpected Properties of Atmospheric Reactions....Pages 531-542
State Selectivity in Light Emission from Flames....Pages 543-554
Concluding Remarks....Pages 555-560
Back Matter....Pages 561-570