Aromatic hydrocarbons are important components of petroleum-based transportation fuels,
biomass, coal, and solid waste, etc. The reaction kinetics of aromatic hydrocarbons largely …

Flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) had its beginnings in the 1940s and 1950s, mainly through
mass spectrometric detection of pyrolytically formed free radicals. In the 1960s many organic …

The pyrolysis of toluene was studied in a flow reactor at pressures from 5 to 760 Torr and
temperatures from 1100 to 1730 K using synchrotron vacuum ultraviolet photoionization …

Recent investigations illustrated that clustering of hydrocarbons by radical-chain reaction
(CHRCR) mechanism provides key mechanistic steps for the rapid synthesis of polycyclic …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), serving as critical soot precursors, are formed via
complicated chemical processes, such as the first aromatic ring formation and the aromatic …

Xylyl radicals are intermediates in combustion processes since their parent molecules,
xylenes, are present as fuel additives. In this study we report on the photoelectron spectra of …

The pyrolysis of the benzyl radical has been studied in a set of heated micro-reactors. A
combination of photoionization mass spectrometry (PIMS) and matrix isolation infrared (IR) …

Xylyl (methylbenzyl) radicals are important combustion intermediates, formed in the
pyrolysis and oxidation of xylenes and other substituted aromatic fuel additives. We have …

ATOMIC is a thermochemistry protocol geared toward larger molecules with first-row atoms.
It implements Pople's concept of bond separation reactions in an ab initio fashion and so …

Flash vacuum thermolysis (FVT) of phenyl azide 29 as well as precursors of 2-
pyridylcarbene 34 and 4-pyridylcarbene 25 affords phenylnitrene 30 (labeled or unlabeled) …