Reply to the Comment on “Generalized golden rule treatment of a photochemical solid-state reaction involving hydrogen tunneling”

✍ Scribed by L. Lavtchieva; Z. Smedarchina

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 279 KB
• Volume: 200
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(92)87017-j

✦ Synopsis

The consequences of the inaccuracy and some deliberate omissions in reporting experimental data of Prass and Stehlik in the commented paper are considered. We examine the concept that specific low-temperature data provide the most critical test for the theoretical model used. Our argument of why these data should be treated cautiously is not based mainly on the data accuracy but on the fact that different theoretical curves k(T) could be responsible for the experimental results. The "model-independent" approach is also discussed.