Articles you may be interested inAn experimental and computational study of the reaction of ground-state sulfur atoms with carbon disulfideThe systematic behavior of (6Li,d) groundstate transitions in the 1f2p shell AIP Conf.Reactions of S (3 P) and S (1D) have been studied by utilizing carbonyl sulfide photolysis as a source of both species. It has been shown that 46%±4% of the sulfur atoms generated in the photolysis of OCS in the 2250-2650-A spectral region can react as S (3 P), but that substantial portion of the S (3]') is likely produced by deactivating collisions of OCS molecules with S(ID). Both S(1D) and S(,1') react with CS,. The rate constant ratios for these reactions relative to the reactions with OCS have been determined as ~1.9 and ~2.4X102, respectively. Efficient isotopic exchange of S(3P) with CS2 is proposed to occur by means of CS3 formation in a reaction independent of pressure above 50 torr. The reaction of S (ID) with N20 yields N2, but kinetic complexities suggest the intermediate formation of a species such as N20S. Measurement of the quenching of the N2 yield has led to the determination of the relative rates of collisional deactivation of S(ID) for several gases.