Rate coefficients for OH + acetone

Dwayne E. Heard (Chair of the Faraday Discussions Standing Committee on Conferences) and colleagues show that low temperature measurements reveal a dramatic negative temperature dependence to the rate coefficients for the OH + acetone reaction.

Observation of a large negative temperature dependence for rate coefficients of reactions of OH with oxygenated volatile organic compounds studied at 86–112 K
Robin J. Shannon, Sally Taylor, Andrew Goddard, Mark A. Blitz and Dwayne E. Heard
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00918K

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