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Nesbitt DJ, Zolot AM, Roscioli JR, Ryazanov M. Nonequilibrium Scattering/Evaporation Dynamics at the Gas-Liquid Interface: Wetted Wheels, Self-Assembled Monolayers, and Liquid Microjets. Acc Chem Res 2023; 56:700-711. [PMID: 36848588 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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ConspectusWe often teach or are taught in our freshman courses that there are three phases of matter─gas, liquid and solid─where the ordering reflects increasing complexity and strength of interaction between the molecular constituents. But arguably there is also a fascinating additional "phase" of matter associated with the microscopically thin interface (<10 molecules thick) between the gas and liquid, which is still poorly understood and yet plays a crucial role in fields ranging from chemistry of the marine boundary layer and atmospheric chemistry of aerosols to the passage of O2 and CO2 through alveolar sacs in our lungs. The work in this Account provides insights into three challenging new directions for the field, each embracing a rovibronically quantum-state-resolved perspective. Specifically, we exploit the powerful tools of chemical physics and laser spectroscopy to pose two fundamental questions. (i) At the microscopic level, do molecules in all internal quantum-states (e.g., vibrational, rotational, electronic) colliding with the interface "stick" with unit probability? (ii) Can reactive, scattering, and/or evaporating molecules at the gas-liquid interface avoid collisions with other species and thereby be observed in a truly "nascent" collision-free distribution of internal degrees of freedom? To help address these questions, we present studies in three different areas: (i) reactive scattering dynamics of F atoms with wetted-wheel gas-liquid interfaces, (ii) inelastic scattering of HCl from self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) via resonance-enhanced photoionization (REMPI)/velocity map imaging (VMI) methods, and (iii) quantum-state-resolved evaporation dynamics of NO at the gas-water interface. As a recurring theme, we find that molecular projectiles reactively, inelastically, or evaporatively scatter from the gas-liquid interface into internal quantum-state distributions substantially out of equilibrium with respect to the bulk liquid temperatures (TS). By detailed balance considerations, the data unambiguously indicate that even simple molecules exhibit rovibronic state dependences to how they "stick" to and eventually solvate into the gas-liquid interface. Such results serve to underscore the importance of quantum mechanics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics in energy transfer and chemical reactions at the gas-liquid interface. This nonequilibrium behavior may well make this rapidly emergent field of chemical dynamics at gas-liquid interfaces more complicated but even more interesting targets for further experimental/theoretical exploration.
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Affiliation(s)
- David J Nesbitt
- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Quantinuum, 303 S. Technology Ct., Broomfield, Colorado 80021, United States
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- Aerodyne Research, Inc., 45 Manning Rd., Billerica, Massachusetts 01821, United States
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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Bianchini RH, Roman MJ, Costen ML, McKendrick KG. Real-space laser-induced fluorescence imaging applied to gas-liquid interfacial scattering. J Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5110517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Robert H. Bianchini
- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom
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Ryazanov M, Nesbitt DJ. Quantum-state-resolved studies of aqueous evaporation dynamics: NO ejection from a liquid water microjet. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:044201. [PMID: 30709290 DOI: 10.1063/1.5083050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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This work presents the first fully quantum-state-resolved measurements of a solute molecule evaporating from the gas-liquid interface in vacuum. Specifically, laser-induced fluorescence detection of NO(2Π1/2, 3/2, v = 0, J) evaporating from an ∼5 mM NO-water solution provides a detailed characterization of the rotational and spin-orbit distributions emerging from a ⌀4-5 μm liquid microjet into vacuum. The internal-quantum-state populations are found to be well described by Boltzmann distributions, but corresponding to temperatures substantially colder (up to 50 K for rotational and 30 K for spin-orbit) than the water surface. The results therefore raise the intriguing possibility of non-equilibrium dynamics in the evaporation of dissolved gases at the vacuum-liquid-water interface. In order to best interpret these data, we use a model for evaporative cooling of the liquid microjet and develop a model for collisional cooling of the nascent NO evaporant in the expanding water vapor. In particular, the collisional-cooling model illustrates that, despite the 1/r drop-off in density near the microjet greatly reducing the probability of collisions in the expanding water vapor, even small inelastic cross sections (≲ 20 Å2) could account for the experimentally observed temperature differences. The current results do not rule out the possibility of non-equilibrium evaporation dynamics, but certainly suggest that correct interpretation of liquid-microjet studies, even under conditions previously considered as "collision-free," may require more careful consideration of residual collisional dynamics.
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- Mikhail Ryazanov
- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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Purcell SM, Tesa-Serrate MA, Marshall BC, Bruce DW, D'Andrea L, Costen ML, Slattery JM, Smoll EJ, Minton TK, McKendrick KG. Reactive-Atom Scattering from Liquid Crystals at the Liquid-Vacuum Interface: [C 12mim][BF 4] and 4-Cyano-4'-Octylbiphenyl (8CB). LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:9938-9949. [PMID: 27603521 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Two complementary approaches were used to study the liquid-vacuum interface of the liquid-crystalline ionic liquid 1-dodecyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([C12mim][BF4]) in the smectic A (SmA) and isotropic phases. O atoms with two distinct incident translational energies were scattered from the surface of [C12mim][BF4]. Angle-dependent time-of-flight distributions and OH yields, respectively, were recorded from high- and low-energy O atoms. There were no significant changes in the measurements using either approach, nor the properties derived from them, accompanying the transition from the SmA to the isotropic phase. This indicates that the surface structure of [C12mim][BF4] remains essentially unchanged across the phase boundary, implying that the bulk order and surface structure are not strongly correlated for this material. This effect is ascribed to the strong propensity for the outer surfaces of ionic liquids to be dominated by alkyl chains, over an underlying layer rich in anions and cation head groups, whether or not the bulk material is a liquid crystal. In a comparative study, the OH yield from the surface of the liquid crystal, 8CB, was found to be affected by the bulk order, showing a surprising step increase at the SmA-nematic transition temperature, whose origin is the subject of speculation.
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- Simon M Purcell
- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University , Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University , Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University , Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University , Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University , Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University , Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University , Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom
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Tesa-Serrate MA, Smoll EJ, Minton TK, McKendrick KG. Atomic and Molecular Collisions at Liquid Surfaces. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2016; 67:515-40. [PMID: 27090845 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040215-112355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The gas-liquid interface remains one of the least explored, but nevertheless most practically important, environments in which molecular collisions take place. These molecular-level processes underlie many bulk phenomena of fundamental and applied interest, spanning evaporation, respiration, multiphase catalysis, and atmospheric chemistry. We review here the research that has, during the past decade or so, been unraveling the molecular-level mechanisms of inelastic and reactive collisions at the gas-liquid interface. Armed with the knowledge that such collisions with the outer layers of the interfacial region can be unambiguously distinguished, we show that the scattering of gas-phase projectiles is a promising new tool for the interrogation of liquid surfaces with extreme surface sensitivity. Especially for reactive scattering, this method also offers absolute chemical selectivity for the groups that react to produce a specific observed product.
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- Maria A Tesa-Serrate
- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom;
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717;
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717;
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom;
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Faust JA, Nathanson GM. Microjets and coated wheels: versatile tools for exploring collisions and reactions at gas–liquid interfaces. Chem Soc Rev 2016; 45:3609-20. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cs00079g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Scattering experiments using liquid microjets provide a window into collisions and reactions at the surfaces of high vapor pressure liquids.
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- Andrew J. Orr-Ewing
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom;
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Dunning GT, Glowacki DR, Preston TJ, Greaves SJ, Greetham GM, Clark IP, Towrie M, Harvey JN, Orr-Ewing AJ. Vibrational relaxation and microsolvation of DF after F-atom reactions in polar solvents. Science 2015; 347:530-3. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa0103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Dunning GT, Murdock D, Greetham GM, Clark IP, Orr-Ewing AJ. Solvent response to fluorine-atom reaction dynamics in liquid acetonitrile. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:9465-70. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp00774g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Solvent restructuring and vibrational cooling follow exothermic fluorine-atom reactions in acetonitrile.
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- G. T. Dunning
- School of Chemistry
- University of Bristol
- Cantock's Close
- Bristol BS8 1TS
- UK
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- School of Chemistry
- University of Bristol
- Cantock's Close
- Bristol BS8 1TS
- UK
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- Central Laser Facility
- Research Complex at Harwell
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Oxfordshire
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- Central Laser Facility
- Research Complex at Harwell
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Oxfordshire
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- School of Chemistry
- University of Bristol
- Cantock's Close
- Bristol BS8 1TS
- UK
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Orr-Ewing AJ. Perspective: Bimolecular chemical reaction dynamics in liquids. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:090901. [PMID: 24606343 DOI: 10.1063/1.4866761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Bimolecular reactions in the gas phase exhibit rich and varied dynamical behaviour, but whether a profound knowledge of the mechanisms of isolated reactive collisions can usefully inform our understanding of reactions in liquid solutions remains an open question. The fluctuating environment in a liquid may significantly alter the motions of the reacting particles and the flow of energy into the reaction products after a transition state has been crossed. Recent experimental and computational studies of exothermic reactions of CN radicals with organic molecules indicate that many features of the gas-phase dynamics are retained in solution. However, observed differences may also provide information on the ways in which a solvent modifies fundamental chemical mechanisms. This perspective examines progress in the use of time-resolved infra-red spectroscopy to study reaction dynamics in liquids, discusses how existing theories can guide the interpretation of experimental data, and suggests future challenges for this field of research.
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- Andrew J Orr-Ewing
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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Tesa-Serrate MA, King KL, Paterson G, Costen ML, McKendrick KG. Site and bond-specific dynamics of reactions at the gas–liquid interface. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:173-83. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54107j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Troya D. Dynamics of collisions of hydroxyl radicals with fluorinated self-assembled monolayers. Theor Chem Acc 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-011-1072-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Waring C, King KL, Costen ML, McKendrick KG. Dynamics of the Gas−Liquid Interfacial Reaction of O(1D) with a Liquid Hydrocarbon. J Phys Chem A 2011; 115:7210-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jp200292n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Carla Waring
- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, U.K
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- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, U.K
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- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, U.K
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- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, U.K
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Layfield JP, Troya D. Theoretical study of the dynamics of F+alkanethiol self-assembled monolayer hydrogen-abstraction reactions. J Chem Phys 2010; 132:134307. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3364858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Yockel S, Schatz GC. Modeling O(3P) and Ar Scattering from the Ionic Liquid [emim][NO3] at 5 eV with Hybrid QM/MM Molecular Dynamics. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:14241-8. [DOI: 10.1021/jp910707v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Scott Yockel
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113
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Perkins, Jr. BG, Nesbitt DJ. High resolution Dopplerimetry of correlated angular and quantum state-resolved CO2 scattering dynamics at the gas–liquid interface. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 12:14294-308. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cp00578a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Brastad SM, Albert DR, Huang M, Nathanson GM. Collisions of DCl with a Solution Covered with Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Ions: Tetrahexylammonium Bromide in Glycerol. J Phys Chem A 2009; 113:7422-30. [DOI: 10.1021/jp900232v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Susan M. Brastad
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1322
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1322
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1322
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1322
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Radak BK, Yockel S, Kim D, Schatz GC. Modeling Reactive Scattering of F(2P) at a Liquid Squalane Interface: A Hybrid QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Study. J Phys Chem A 2009; 113:7218-26. [DOI: 10.1021/jp809546r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Brian K. Radak
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113
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Ziemkiewicz M, Nesbitt DJ. Nonadiabatic reactive scattering in atom+triatom systems: Nascent rovibronic distributions in F+H[sub 2]O→HF+OH. J Chem Phys 2009; 131:054309. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3194284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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