Interaction Potentials Involving Br Atoms
- 15 October 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 53 (8), 3320-3323
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1674485
Abstract
Three‐body Br‐atom recombination rate constants, obtained recently over a relatively wide temperature range, were used to estimate the interaction potentials between recombining atoms and an inert third body, M. It was found that the most reasonable set of assumptions yields ε LJ Ne = 0.6 kcal / mol , ε LJ Ar = 1.4 cal / mol , ε LJ Kr = 2.0 kcal / mol , and ε LJ N 2 = 1.5 kcal / mol , where ε LJ M is the depth of the interaction potential between Br and M. These values of ε LJ M are several times larger than ε LJ M between M and Kr, which is bromine's nearest neighbor in the periodic table. The calculations show that use of a more realistic (Sutherland, rather than hard‐sphere) potential between the recombining Br and BrM complex reduces, in some cases by as much as 50%, the value of ε LJ M . The corresponding three‐body reaction probabilities, P's, vary from, roughly, 0.01 to unity, depending upon the details of the assumed recombination mechanism, and the nature of the third body. For M as an inert gas, P decreases with the increasing of molecular weight.Keywords
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