ANALYSIS OF PRODUCT DOPPLER-BROADENED PROFILES GENERATED FROM PHOTOINITIATED BIMOLECULAR REACTIONS

This paper, which is the companion to the experimental paper (M. Broua rd, S. P. Duxon, P. A. Enriquez and J. P. Simons, J. Chem. Soc., Farad ay Trans., 1993, 89, 1435) in this issue, is divided into two parts. I n the first, equations for the laboratory (LAB) velocity distribution of products generated via photoionitiated bimolecular reaction are pre sented. These equations provide the basis for numerical simulation of these distributions from assumed forms for the centre-of-mass (CM) dif ferential cross-section: the results may be compared directly with tho se derived experimentally via Fourier-transform Doppler 1 + 1 LIF or R EMPI spectroscopy. The latter inversion technique is described in deta il in the second part of the paper.