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Laser activation of ethylene and formaldehyde quenching

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A novel method is described for oxidizing ethylene with molecular oxygen to give formaldehyde under normal conditions in the presence of the beam from a continuous wave low-power CO2 laser (943 cm−1), which is in resonance with the ethylene vibrational mode p(CH2) = 949 cm−1; the method involves activating the CH2-CH2 bonds to failure with the formation of biradicals and then quenching the formaldehyde, which is out of equilibrium as regards temperature.

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Institute for General and Inorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of The Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Eksperimental'naya Khimiya, No. 2, pp. 220–223, March–April, 1991. Original article submitted April 19, 1990.

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Volkov, S.V. Laser activation of ethylene and formaldehyde quenching. Theor Exp Chem 27, 200–202 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01372475

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