Experimental testing of molecular dynamic functions of pairs by the isotope selectivity of radical recombination

A method for experimental testing of the molecular dynamic functionf(t), which describes the generation of reencounters in a dynamic pair of molecular particles, has been developed. The method is based on the analysis of isotope separation in spin selective reactions of a radical pair. Thef(t) function derived from the solution of the diffusion equation with physically rigorous initial and boundary conditions describes experimental results much better than the well-known Noyes function. Conditions that make it possible to increase the efficiency of isotope separation in spin selective reactions are formulated.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 1639–1645, September, 1995.This work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No. 93-03-05227).