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- Title
Reaction dynamics: Surrounded by complications.
- Authors
Crim, F. Fleming
- Abstract
The article focuses on the interaction of reactants with surrounding solvent molecules that complicates bimolecular reactions in solution. It mentions the importance of the transition state, the high-energy configuration situated between reactants and products in understanding chemical reactions. It discusses the parallelism between the historical evolution of liquid-phase and gas-phase studies. It states how Andrew Orr-Ewing and colleagues used broadband infrared light to study the transient absorption of vibrationally excited products on an ultrafast timescale. Furthermore, the significant amount of energy in vibration shows that the solvent does not alter the location of the energy barrier but changes the details of passage through the transition state.
- Subjects
SOLVENTS; MOLECULES; MOLECULAR shapes; CHEMICAL reactions; CHEMICAL processes; GAS-liquid interfaces; ORR-Ewing, Andrew; INFRARED technology; VIBRATIONAL spectra
- Publication
Nature Chemistry, 2011, Vol 3, Issue 5, p344
- ISSN
1755-4330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nchem.1034