(Originally written 2004–06-23 18:40:05)

Poster finished, which is nice. Finally got it printed, but Powerpoint had helpfully decided that I didn’t really want to have any atom labels on one diagram, so I filled them in by hand..
Presentation was today too – mostly very dull. A few academics wandering around, spoke to Stefan at some length, who had some interesting ideas and some impracticable ones too.

I like:

• The idea of injecting hexene in the middle of an ethylene run, and seeing if the ethylene rate is modified.


• Adding an amount of a known tight-PDi PE to a run, to see if it’s modified, which would suggest a radical mechanism

An important point is that I really need to separate k_p from everything else that’s going on in the system. This will get into some hairy kinetics, probably, but may well end up being important. Must discuss with Pete.
Now just have to write my report for next weds, and all will be happy.

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