A comprehensive compilation of rate coefficients for vibration-to-vibratiun (V V) l:1ml vibration-to-translation (V -T) energy transfer processes involving hydrogen ha1ide molecules is presented. The literature has been surveyed from 1966 to July 1981. Rate coeffi-cient~ are grouped according to room temperature and low and high temperature results.Measured results are identified according to the type of process: V -V, V -T, or the sum of V -V and V -T processes. The method of measurement is identified along with the energy discrepancy, percent error, authors, and year of publication. The results are seen to be in excellent agreement when multiple measurements are available.The reference number, author, or first and last author, and date of the publication are given in the table. The complete citation is given in the bibliography at the end. Many groups have developed significant measurement skills and were frequently involved in many of the important measurements. The reader can quickly assess which values were obtained by each of several different groups without referring to the complete bibliography.
Reliability of MethodsAs a technique, the laser fluorescence method has proven tu ue the most reliable and accurate. However, flow tube and double resonance methods also give excellent, accurate results. The methods with the greatest uncertainty appear to be laser gain, spectrophone, flash photolysis, shock tube studies and improperly done flow tube (flow reactor) measurements. Chemiluminescence depletion has typically only achieved relative rate coefficients. The combined methods, for example, laser fluorescence-discharge flow, are obviously more difficult technically, and thus have greater uncer-J.