Laser initiated thermal isomerization of methyl isocyanide

✍ Scribed by D.S. Bethune; J.R. Lankard; M.M.T. Loy; J. Ors; P.P. Sorokin

• Book ID: 103021596
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 355 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(78)85555-9

✦ Synopsis

Application of single pulses of CC&a TEA laser radiation to a vapor of methyl isocyanide (CHaNC), with the laser tuned to coincide with the frmdamental frequency ~4 of this molecule, results in more than 50% conversion of the gas to its isomer methyl cyanide <CH&N). The experiments, performed at room temperature at pressures LO-100 ton, are interpreted in terms of laser induced heating which is sufficient to mer a thermal explosion.