Collisional Transfer of Rotational Energy in Mixtures of Methanol with Ne, Ar, and D2
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Steady state microwave double resonance experiments are reported for dilute mixtures of CH3OH in excess Ne, Ar, and D2. The results for Ne and Ar are, in general, similar to previous results for He, and those for D2 to H2, with both classes of collision partners displaying a decrease in collisional transfer signal with increasing mass of the partner. A simple qualitative analysis indicates that the ratios between the rates of different types of collision-induced transitions are quite similar for the members of a class. For He, Ne, and Ar, the rate constant for Δk = 0 transitions is of the order of 8 times that for a Δk = ±1 transition, while for H2 and D2 the ratio is about 4.