Defense Nuclear Agency Reaction Rate Handbook. Second Edition. Revision Number 4, March 1975

Abstract : Progress in the field of ion-neutral reactions has been very rapid in the few years since the first edition of the Reaction Rate Handbook was prepared. The number of atmospherically relevant rate constants known has multiplied greatly and most of those previously known have been improved so that an almost complete rewriting of this chapter (prepared by Wade L. Fite in the first edition of the Handbook) was called for. The convenient format of Fite is retained. The emphasis of this chapter is on data tabulation. The reactions reported are positive- and negative-ion charge-transfer (electron transfer) with neutrals, ion-atom-interchange reactions (chemical rearrangement), and three- body association reactions. The survey is restricted largely to low (near- thermal) energies.