RESEARCH GROUP OF PRIV. - DOZ. K.-M. WEITZEL

Takustr. 3
14195 Berlin

now prof. at Universität Marburg

E-Mail: weitzel@chemie.fu-berlin.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

• Research Areas
• List of Publications
• Fachbereichs-Broschüre (Edition 1996) (mostly German !)
• Karl-Michael Weitzel - Homepage

  
  

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ABSTRACT

Our work focusses on the investigation of the energetics, the kinetics and the mechanism of elementary reactions in molecular ions (e.g. CH₄⁺, C₂H₄⁺, C₂H₆⁺, HBr⁺, HCl⁺) and cluster ions (e.g. ArCO⁺, ArN₂⁺, (CO)₂⁺, (N₂)₂⁺). There particular attention is given to the role of rotation in these reactions, i.e. the variation of the dissociation energy E_o and the rate constant k with

i.) the rotational temperature in a thermal experiment, or with

ii.) the total angular momentum J (rotational angular momentum R) in a state selective experiment.

These topics are investigated by various experimental techniques - partially developed in our group - employing synchrotron or laser radiation. The experiments are complemented by theoretical studies describing the reaction kinetics and the energy balance in the reactions based on high level ab initio calculations.