Rate of abstraction of hydrogen atoms from ethane by muonium

Autor: Snooks, Rodney, Arseneau, Donald J., Baer, Susan, Fleming, Donald G., Senba, Masayoshi, Pan, James J., Shelley, Mee
Zdroj: Hyperfine Interactions; December 1994, Vol. 87 Issue: 1 p911-916, 6p
Abstrakt: Thermal reaction rates for the gas-phase reaction Mu+C2H6→MuH+C2H5 have been measured byμSR over the temperature range 510–730 K. The usual Arrhenius expression,k=Aexp(−Ea/RT), fits the data well, giving parametersA=1.0×10−9 cm3 molecule−1 s−1 andEa=15.35 kcal/mol. The activation energyEa is 5.5 kcal/mol higher than for the H atom variant of this reaction, indicating a marked difference in reaction dynamics. Preliminary analysis indicates a still greater difference between Mu and H for the corresponding CH4 reaction.
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