Experimental study of the reactions of Si+(2P) ions with several small organic molecules at near thermal energies

The kinetics of the reactions of ground state silicon ions Si+(2P) with C2H6, CH3OH, and CH3CH2OH has been investigated using a Selected Ion Flow Drift Tube technique (SIFDT). The reaction rate coefficients and the product distributions have been determined as functions of the reactant ion/reactant neutral average centre-of-mass kinetic energy (E CM).