Modulated molecular beam mass spectrometry: A generalized expression for the rsquo;rsquo;reaction product vectorrsquo;rsquo; for linear systems

摘要

A generalized expression is developed that relates the rsquo;rsquo;reaction product vectorrsquo;rsquo;, egr;thinsp;exp(minus;ifgr;), to the kinetic parameters of a linear system. The formalism is appropriate for the analysis of modulated molecular beam mass spectrometry data and facilitates the correlation of experimental results to (proposed) linear models. A study of stability criteria appropriate for modulated molecular beam mass spectrometry experiments is also presented. This investigation has led to interesting inherent limitations which have not heretofore been emphasized, as well as a delineation of the conditions under which stable chemical oscillations may occur in the reacting system.