A crossed molecular beams and computational study on the unusual reactivity of banana bonds of cyclopropane (c-C₃H₆; ) through insertion by ground state carbon atoms (C(³P_j))

Abstract

The mechanism and chemical dynamics of the reaction of ground electronic state atomic carbon C(3Pj) with cyclopropane c-C3H6 (X1A1ʹ) have been explored by combining crossed molecular beams experiments with electronic...

Spiers Memorial Lecture: New directions in molecular scattering

“…In general, the application of theory in combination with crossed-molecularbeams experiments has led to fundamental understanding of quite complex reactions. [234][235][236][237][238][239][240][241][242][243][244][245][246][247][248][249][250][251] The impact of modern scattering on real systems can be exem-plied in the studies of O( 3 P) + C 6 H 6 (benzene). Here, a theoretical statistical approach could be validated by comparison to the crossed-molecular-beam results and subsequently used to compute channel-specic rate constants as a function of temperature and pressure.…”