Spectroscopic Study on the Pyrolytic Products of Amines

Abstract

Abstract From the early days of alchemy, heating has been a primary method to promote chemical reaction and to obtain new materials. Organic and inorganic compounds, such as benzene and sulfuric acid, were being prepared pyrolytically by the early 19th century. The use of light, particularly the advent of the laser in this century, added another tool for chemical reaction. The ease of regulation and superior selectivity of laser frequencies are advantages over the thermal reaction. State-to-state chemistry in combination with the laser is highly developed at the present time. On the other hand, although some of the black-box character of thermal reactions makes it difficult to rigorously study reaction mechanisms, most of the new compounds are still created by the effects of heating.