Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, Vol.96, No.2, 291-297, 2009
Kinetics of the reaction of OH radicals with CH3OH and CD3OD studied by laser photolysis coupled to high repetition rate laser induced fluorescence
A new experimental set-up coupling laser photolysis to a 10 kHz dye laser as the excitation source for OH fluorescence has been validated by measuring the rate constant of the reaction CH3OH + OH. The rate constant of the deuterated homologue CD3OD + OH has been measured under the same conditions.