Equilibrium concentrations of the major species in conventional and halogen assisted CVD diamond synthesis systems were calculated and the results are presented in this thesis. The optimal diamond deposition conditions ...

Part I. Semibenzene methyl 7,7-diphenyl-p-mentha-1(7),2,5-triene-8-carboxylate (1), which can be regarded as the para recombination product of triphenylmethyl and methyl isobutyryl radicals (5), affords exactly these ...

A quadrupole mass spectrometer system was redesigned with pulse counting electronics and a resistively heated, high-temperature furnace. This system was employed in Knudsen effusion experiments to investigate the high ...

Studies of intramolecular dynamics during unimolecular reactions are important in characterizing the energy transfer into the reaction coordinate responsible for the reactive event. We investigated the dynamics and mode-mode ...

Symmetric-top molecules (CF$\sb3$Br, CF$\sb3$Cl, CF$\sb3$H and CH$\sb3$Br) in a seeded supersonic nozzle beam are orientation selected by a hexapole electric field, and collide at a right angle with fast (3-40 eV) potassium ...

Ab initio self-consistent field Hartree-Fock calculations employing minimal and double-zeta basis sets have been carried out on the possible isolated-pentagon fullerene isomers of C$\sb{76}$ and C$\sb{78}$. Two possible ...

New techniques for obtaining various thermophysical properties, i.e., densities and incremental enthalpies of selected materials at high temperatures have been developed with emphasis on the utilization of levitation ...