Publications by authors named "Laura M Visger-Kiefer"
Butanol is now prominent among the prototype renewable biofuels. We have studied oxidation of a variety of butanol isomers under single collision conditions using chlorine atom as the oxidizing agent to gain detailed insight into the energetics and dynamics of these reactions. The interaction of chlorine atom radicals with butanol isomers: n-butanol, iso-butanol, sec-butanol, and tert-butanol have been studied by crossed-beam dc slice ion imaging techniques.
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- The study investigates how chlorine atoms react with butane-1,1,1,4,4,4-d(6) through the dynamics of primary (D-atom) and secondary (H-atom) abstraction.
- The research utilized crossed molecular beam techniques and focused on varying collision energies to understand these reactions better.
- Differences in translational energy distributions were observed between primary and secondary abstractions, especially how they varied with collision energy in different directions.