摘要:
Rate constants for the dissociation of isolated benzene and substituted-benzene cations are analyzed. In the first section Arrhenius activation energies are deduced. A primitive version of the adiabatic channel model is then used to reduce these activation energies to their values at zero Kelvin. A value for the heat of formation at that temperature of the C6H+5 ion equal to 1130 kJ/mol is reported. Attention is drawn to a remarkable constancy (and also two anomalies) in the frequency factors for these reactions. The predictive capability of the adiabatic channel model is then examined. It is found to yield kinetic isotope effects in good agreement with experiment.