Recent contributions of flame-sampling molecular-beam mass spectrometry to a fundamental understanding of combustion chemistry

N Hansen, TA Cool, PR Westmoreland… - Progress in Energy and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Flame-sampling molecular-beam mass spectrometry of premixed, laminar, low-pressure flat
flames has been demonstrated to be an efficient tool to study combustion chemistry. In this …

Allenes and computational chemistry: from bonding situations to reaction mechanisms

E Soriano, I Fernández - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The present review is focused on the application of computational/theoretical methods to the
wide and rich chemistry of allenes. Special emphasis is made on the interplay and synergy …

[HTML][HTML] Photodissociation and photoionisation of atoms and molecules of astrophysical interest

AN Heays, AD Bosman, EF Van Dishoeck - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2017 - aanda.org
A new collection of photodissociation and photoionisation cross sections for 102 atoms and
molecules of astrochemical interest has been assembled, along with a brief review of the …

High-dimensional ab initio potential energy surfaces for reaction dynamics calculations

JM Bowman, G Czako, B Fu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been great progress in the development of potential energy surfaces (PESs) for
reaction dynamics that are fits to ab initio energies. The fitting techniques described here …

Formation and consumption of single-ring aromatic hydrocarbons and their precursors in premixed acetylene, ethylene and benzene flames

H Richter, JB Howard - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2002 - pubs.rsc.org
Kinetic modeling is becoming a powerful tool for the quantitative description of combustion
processes covering different fuels and large ranges of temperature, pressure and …

Global mapping of equilibrium and transition structures on potential energy surfaces by the scaled hypersphere search method: applications to ab initio surfaces of …

S Maeda, K Ohno - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2005 - ACS Publications
Technical details of a new global mapping technique for finding equilibrium (EQ) and
transition structures (TS) on potential energy surfaces (PES), the scaled hypersphere search …

From the Multiple-Well Master Equation to Phenomenological Rate Coefficients:  Reactions on a C3H4 Potential Energy Surface

JA Miller, SJ Klippenstein - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2003 - ACS Publications
Using various forms of electronic-structure theory to characterize the important features of
the potential energy surface, RRKM theory to calculate microcanonical rate coeffients, and …

Ab initio calculations of vibronic spectra and dynamics for small polyatomic molecules: Role of Duschinsky effect

AM Mebel, M Hayashi, KK Liang… - The Journal of Physical …, 1999 - ACS Publications
The Duschinsky effect has been shown to be significant in spectroscopy and dynamics of
molecules that involve the π− π* transitions. In this paper, we present a derivation of exact …

Synchrotron photoionization measurements of combustion intermediates: photoionization efficiency and identification of C 3 H 2 isomers

CA Taatjes, SJ Klippenstein, N Hansen… - Physical Chemistry …, 2005 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoionization mass spectrometry using tunable vacuum-ultraviolet synchrotron radiation is
applied to the study of C3H2 sampled from a rich cyclopentene flame. The photoionization …

Crossed molecular beam reactive scattering: from simple triatomic to multichannel polyatomic reactions

N Balucani, G Capozza, F Leonori… - … Reviews in Physical …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
In our laboratory a recent series of experiments by means of the crossed molecular beam
(CMB) scattering technique with mass-spectrometric detection and time-of-flight analysis has …