This bond is detectable through modern analytic chemistry and is significant because it affects the rate at which other reactions can occur.
[2] In 1989, Donald Fleming noticed that a reaction between bromine and muonium slowed down as temperature increased.
In 1989 the technology did not exist to collect sufficient data on the reaction, and Donald Fleming and his team moved away from the research.
[3] Donald Fleming and his team recently began their investigation of vibrational bonds, and as they had expected from the results of their experiments in 1989, the BrLBr reaction slowed at high temperatures, now using modern instrumental analysis from photo detachment electron spectroscopy, the vibrational bond was detected but lasted only a few milliseconds.
[5] This bouncing action lowers the potential energy of the BrMuBr molecule, and therefore slows the rate of the reaction.