Conveners
Reaction kinetics and mechanisms I
- Andras Bodi (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Understanding the mechanism of elementary gas phase reactions leading to the formation of molecules and clusters in various conditions, especially at very low temperatures (i.e. low collision energies), is of fundamental interest and yields crucial information for modelling gaseous environments encountered in the fields of atmospheric chemistry (of the Earth and other planets) and...
The benzylium/ tropylium ion (C$_7$H$_7^+$) dichotomy is well known in mass spectrometry and could be of interest for larger species such as the 1-methylpyrene fragment (C$_{17}$H$_{11}^+$) [1].
Common ways of distinguishing isomers are spectroscopy and chemical reactivity. In ion traps, the density of species is too low for conventional absorption spectroscopy and action schemes have to be...
