Abstract
The decade that opened in 1950 witnessed dramatic changes in the experimental study of the kinetics of chemical reactions. It started with the description of an apparatus for directly following light-induced processes on millisecond time scales (1) and closed with the announcement of the development of the use of pulses of high energy electrons of a few microseconds duration for studying radiation chemical changes (2–4). In between, the use of rapid jumps of temperature (5) and pressure (6) was applied to the study of the kinetics of chemical equilibrium. All these methods, and related ones developed since that time, rely on the imparting of a momentary burst of energy to a chemical system, in consequence of which the system leaves its initial equilibrium state. The return of the system to equilibrium is subsequently monitored by a technique that is amenable to a high degree of time resolution. The use of pulses of photons and electrons to disturb a system differs fundamentally from the use of temperature and pressure jumps: In the latter case the system moves only a small way from equilibrium, the change in equilibrium position depends upon the temperature and pressure dependence of the thermodynamic properties of the equilibrium state, and no new species are involved.
The Center for Fast Kinetics Research is supported by NIH grant RROO886 from the Biotechnology Resources Program of the Division of Research Resources and by the University of Texas at Austin.
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Rodgers, M.A.J. (1985). Instrumentation for the Generation and Detection of Transient Species. In: Bensasson, R.V., Jori, G., Land, E.J., Truscott, T.G. (eds) Primary Photo-Processes in Biology and Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1224-6_1
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