Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160102585

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160102585

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Signature of vibrational motions encoded into small polyatomic spectra. Using revolutionary state-of-the-art spectrometers, the project plans to search for signatures of large-amplitude vibrational motions that transform one chemical species to another. Bond-breaking chemical reactions necessarily involve highly vibrationally excited reactants and/or products that move the energy of the system away from equilibrium. It is now possible for direct measurements to be made of the changes that a molecule undergoes as it transits across a chemical potential energy barrier. The project plans to examine the long-standing problem of vinylidene-acetylene isomerisation in order to verify the long-suspected existence of large amplitude vibrational motion in small molecules, which are thought to be the signatures of a particular class of chemical dynamics. These would provide a rational basis for future control of unimolecular chemical reactions.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2016

End Date: 12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $280,198.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Physical Organic Chemistry | Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy | Atomic and Molecular Physics | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Organic Industrial Chemicals (excl. Resins, Rubber and Plastics) |

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