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Matsugi A, Suzuki S. Ring Growth Mechanism in the Reaction between Fulvenallenyl and Cyclopentadienyl Radicals. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:1327-1338. [PMID: 38351621 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Recombination between resonance-stabilized hydrocarbon radicals is an important class of reactions that contribute to molecular growth chemistry in combustion. In the present study, the ring growth mechanism in the reaction between fulvenallenyl (C7H5) and cyclopentadienyl (C5H5) radicals is investigated computationally. The reaction pathways are explored by quantum chemical calculations, and the phenomenological and steady-state rate constants are determined by solving the multiple-well master equations. The primary reaction routes following the recombination between the two radicals are found to be as follows: formation of the adducts, isomerization by hydrogen shift reactions, cyclization to form tricyclic compounds, and their isomerization and dissociation reactions, leading to the formation of acenaphthylene. The overall process can be approximately represented as C7H5 + C5H5 → acenaphthylene + 2H with the bimolecular rate constant of about 4 × 10-12 cm3 molecule-1 s-1. A reaction mechanism consisting of 20 reactions, including the formation, isomerization, and dissociation processes of major intermediate species, is proposed for use in kinetic modeling.
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- Akira Matsugi
- Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8569, Japan
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- Research Institute for Energy Conversion, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-2-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-8564, Japan
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Hirsch F, Fischer I, Bakels S, Rijs AM. Gas-Phase Infrared Spectra of the C 7H 5 Radical and Its Bimolecular Reaction Products. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:2532-2540. [PMID: 35427137 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Resonance-stabilized radicals are considered as possible intermediates in the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in interstellar space. Here, we investigate the fulvenallenyl radical, the most stable C7H5 isomer by IR/UV ion dip spectroscopy employing free electron laser radiation in the mid-infrared region between 550 and 1750 cm-1. The radical is generated by pyrolysis from phthalide. Various jet-cooled reaction products are identified by their mass-selective IR spectra in the fingerprint region, based on a comparison with computed spectra. Interestingly, benzyl is present as a second resonance-stabilized radical. It is connected to fulvenallenyl by a sequence of two H atom losses or additions. Among the identified aromatic hydrocarbons are toluene and styrene, as well as polycyclic molecules, such as indene, naphthalene, fluorene and phenanthrene. Mechanisms for the formation of PAH from C7H5 have already been suggested in previous computational work. In particular, the radical/radical reaction of two fulvenallenyl radicals provides an efficient route to phenanthrene in one bimolecular step and might be relevant for PAH formation under astrochemical conditions.
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- Florian Hirsch
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Toernooiveld 7c, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Toernooiveld 7c, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Al-Hammadi S, da Silva G. Thermal decomposition and isomerization of furfural and 2-pyrone: a theoretical kinetic study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:2046-2054. [PMID: 33470258 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp05523a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We have studied the decomposition and isomerization of furfural in the gas phase using quantum chemical and statistical reaction rate theory techniques. This work uncovers a variety of new reaction channels in furfural pyrolysis that lead to formation of the experimentally observed products, including CO2, which was previously unexplained. In addition to the known mechanism for furan + CO production, furfural is shown to isomerize directly to 2-pyrone, with a barrier height of 69 kcal mol-1, from where it can decompose to vinylketene + CO (highest barrier of 65 kcal mol-1) or to CO2 + 1,3-cyclobutadiene (highest barrier of 66 kcal mol-1). Alternative pathways to vinylketene + CO and 4-pyrone are also described. An RRKM theory/master equation model is developed to describe reactions on the C5O2H4 surface and used to simulate the decomposition kinetics of furfural and 2-pyrone. For both molecules, decomposition at 1400-2100 K is dominated by the formation of furan + CO, which represents around 75% of the total products, compared to around 19% and 6% for vinylketene + CO and total CO2, respectively. The model also predicts significant formation of stabilized 2-pyrone under these conditions. Rate coefficient expressions are reported as a function of both temperature and pressure for the main decomposition and isomerization channels identified in the pyrolysis of furfural and 2-pyrone, to facilitate detailed chemical kinetic modelling of these important oxygenated hydrocarbons.
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- Saddam Al-Hammadi
- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
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He C, Thomas AM, Galimova GR, Morozov AN, Mebel AM, Kaiser RI. Gas-Phase Formation of Fulvenallene (C 7H 6) via the Jahn-Teller Distorted Tropyl (C 7H 7) Radical Intermediate under Single-Collision Conditions. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:3205-3213. [PMID: 31961149 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The fulvenallene molecule (C7H6) has been synthesized via the elementary gas-phase reaction of the methylidyne radical (CH) with the benzene molecule (C6H6) on the doublet C7H7 surface under single collision conditions. The barrier-less route to the cyclic fulvenallene molecule involves the addition of the methylidyne radical to the π-electron density of benzene leading eventually to a Jahn-Teller distorted tropyl (C7H7) radical intermediate and exotic ring opening-ring contraction sequences terminated by atomic hydrogen elimination. The methylidyne-benzene system represents a benchmark to probe the outcome of the elementary reaction of the simplest hydrocarbon radical-methylidyne-with the prototype of a closed-shell aromatic molecule-benzene-yielding nonbenzenoid fulvenallene. Combined with electronic structure and statistical calculations, this bimolecular reaction sheds light on the unusual reaction dynamics of Hückel aromatic systems and remarkable (polycyclic) reaction intermediates, which cannot be studied via classical organic, synthetic methods, thus opening up a versatile path to access this previously largely obscure class of fulvenallenes.
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- Chao He
- Department of Chemistry , University of Hawai'i at Manoa , Honolulu , Hawaii 96822 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Hawai'i at Manoa , Honolulu , Hawaii 96822 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Florida International University , Miami , Florida 33199 , United States.,Samara National Research University , Samara 443086 , Russia
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Florida International University , Miami , Florida 33199 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Florida International University , Miami , Florida 33199 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Hawai'i at Manoa , Honolulu , Hawaii 96822 , United States
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Matsugi A. Thermal Decomposition of Benzyl Radicals: Kinetics and Spectroscopy in a Shock Tube. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:824-835. [PMID: 31917568 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b10705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Understanding the mechanism of high-temperature reactions of aromatic hydrocarbons and radicals is essential for the modeling of hydrocarbon growth processes in combustion environments. In this study, the thermal decomposition reaction of benzyl radicals was investigated using time-resolved broadband cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy behind reflected shock waves at a postshock pressure of 100 kPa and temperatures of 1530, 1630, and 1740 K. The transient absorption spectra during the decomposition were recorded over the spectral range of 282-410 nm. The spectra were contributed by the absorption of benzyl radicals and some transient and residual absorbing species. The temporal behavior of the absorption was analyzed using a kinetic model to determine the rate constant for benzyl decomposition. The obtained rate constants can be represented by the Arrhenius expression k1 = 1.1 × 1012 exp(-30 500 K/T) s-1 with an estimated logarithmic uncertainty of Δlog10 k = ±0.2. Kinetic simulation of the secondary reactions indicated that fulvenallenyl radicals are potentially responsible for the transient absorption that appeared around 400 nm. This assignment is consistent with the available spectroscopic information of this radical. Possible candidates for the residual absorbing species are presented, suggesting the potential importance of ortho-benzyne as a reactive intermediate.
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- Akira Matsugi
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , 16-1 Onogawa , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-8569 , Japan
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Bakowies D. Estimating Systematic Error and Uncertainty in Ab Initio Thermochemistry: II. ATOMIC(hc) Enthalpies of Formation for a Large Set of Hydrocarbons. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 16:399-426. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Dirk Bakowies
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 80, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Sullivan EN, Nichols B, von Kugelgen S, da Silva G, Neumark DM. Multiphoton dissociation dynamics of the indenyl radical at 248 nm and 193 nm. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:174303. [PMID: 31703498 PMCID: PMC7043848 DOI: 10.1063/1.5121294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Photofragment translational spectroscopy is used to investigate the unimolecular photodissociation of the indenyl radical (C9H7). C9H7 radicals are generated by photodetachment of C9H7 - anions and are dissociated at 248 nm (5.00 eV) and 193 nm (6.42 eV). The following product channels are definitively observed at both wavelengths: C2H2 + C7H5, C2H2 + C3H3 + C4H2, and C2H2 + C2H2 + C5H3. The three-body product channels are energetically inaccessible from single photon excitation at either dissociation wavelength. This observation, in combination with calculated dissociation rates and laser power studies, implies that all dissociation seen in this experiment occurs exclusively through multiphoton processes in which the initial C9H7 radical absorbs two photons sequentially prior to dissociation to two or three fragments. The corresponding translational energy distributions for each product channel peak well below the maximum available energy for two photons and exhibit similar behavior regardless of dissociation wavelength. These results suggest that all products are formed by internal conversion to the ground electronic state, followed by dissociation.
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- Erin N. Sullivan
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Roohi H, Moghadam B. Decomposition mechanism of the phenylaminyl C6H5N H radical to propargyl and acetylene: A M06-2X, CBS-QB3 and G4 study. Chem Phys Lett 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2019.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Brown AR, Brice JT, Franke PR, Douberly GE. Infrared Spectrum of Fulvenallene and Fulvenallenyl in Helium Droplets. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:3782-3792. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b01661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Alaina R. Brown
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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Reilly NJ, da Silva G, Wilcox CM, Ge Z, Kokkin DL, Troy TP, Nauta K, Kable SH, McCarthy MC, Schmidt TW. Interconversion of Methyltropyl and Xylyl Radicals: A Pathway Unavailable to the Benzyl–Tropyl Rearrangement. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:1261-1269. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b11914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Neil J. Reilly
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey
Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- School
of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- School
of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Department
of Chemistry, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881, United States
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- Advanced
Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- School
of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- School
of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- Harvard−Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- School
of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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Li Y, Yuan W, Li T, Li W, Yang J, Qi F. Experimental and kinetic modeling investigation of rich premixed toluene flames doped with n-butanol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:10628-10636. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp08518d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Blending of n-butanol for rich toluene combustion strongly suppresses the formation of PAHs.
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- Yuyang Li
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
- Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of MOE
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- Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of MOE
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of MOE
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of MOE
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Hefei
- P. R. China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
- Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of MOE
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Affiliation(s)
- Curt Wentrup
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences The University of Queensland Brisbane Qld 4072 Australien
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Wentrup C. Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis: Techniques and Reactions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:14808-14835. [PMID: 28675675 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201705118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) had its beginnings in the 1940s and 1950s, mainly through mass spectrometric detection of pyrolytically formed free radicals. In the 1960s many organic chemists started performing FVP experiments with the purpose of isolating new and interesting compounds and understanding pyrolysis processes. Meanwhile, many different types of apparatus and techniques have been developed, and it is the purpose of this review to present the most important methods as well as a survey of typical reactions and observations that can be achieved with the various techniques. This includes preparative FVP, chemical trapping reactions, matrix isolation, and low temperature spectroscopy of reactive intermediates and unstable molecules, the use of online mass, photoelectron, microwave, and millimeterwave spectroscopies, gas-phase laser pyrolysis, pulsed pyrolysis with supersonic jet expansion, very low pressure pyrolysis for kinetic investigations, solution-spray and falling-solid FVP for involatile compounds, and pyrolysis over solid supports and reagents. Moreover, the combination of FVP with matrix isolation and photochemistry is a powerful tool for investigations of reaction mechanism.
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- Curt Wentrup
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, 4072, Australia
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da Silva G. Mystery of 1-Vinylpropargyl Formation from Acetylene Addition to the Propargyl Radical: An Open-and-Shut Case. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:2086-2095. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b12996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Gabriel da Silva
- Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Ramphal IA, Shapero M, Haibach-Morris C, Neumark DM. Photodissociation dynamics of fulvenallene and the fulvenallenyl radical at 248 and 193 nm. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:29305-29314. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp05490d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Photofragment translational spectroscopy was used to study the photodissociation of fulvenallene, C7H6, and the fulvenallenyl radical, C7H5. Fulvenallene only loses H atoms to form fulvenallenyl. Fulvenallenyl exhibits both C2H2-loss and C3H3-loss pathways.
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- Isaac A. Ramphal
- Chemical Sciences Division
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Berkeley
- USA
- Department of Chemistry
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- Chemical Sciences Division
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Berkeley
- USA
- Department of Chemistry
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- Chemical Sciences Division
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Berkeley
- USA
- Department of Chemistry
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Buckingham GT, Porterfield JP, Kostko O, Troy TP, Ahmed M, Robichaud DJ, Nimlos MR, Daily JW, Ellison GB. The thermal decomposition of the benzyl radical in a heated micro-reactor. II. Pyrolysis of the tropyl radical. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:014305. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4954895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Grant T. Buckingham
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, USA
- National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden Colorado 80401, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden Colorado 80401, USA
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- National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden Colorado 80401, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Combustion and Environmental Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0427, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, USA
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Thapa J, Spencer M, Akhmedov NG, Goulay F. Kinetics of the OH Radical Reaction with Fulvenallene from 298 to 450 K. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:4997-5001. [PMID: 26625195 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Self-recombination and cross-reactions of large resonant stabilized hydrocarbon radicals such as fulvenallenyl (C7H5) are predicted to form polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in combustion and the interstellar medium. Although fulvenallenyl is likely to be present in these environments, large uncertainties remain about its formation mechanisms. We have investigated the formation of fulvenallenyl by reacting the OH radical with fulvenallene (C7H6) over the 298 to 450 K temperature range and at a pressure of 5 Torr (667 Pa). The reaction rate coefficient is found to be 8.8(±1.7) × 10(-12) cm(3) s(-1) at room temperature with a negative temperature dependence that can be fit from 298 to 450 K to k(T) = 8.8(±1.7) × 10(-12) (T/298 K)(-6.6(±1.1)) exp[-(8.72(±3.03) kJ mol(-1))/(R((1/T) - (1/298 K)))] cm(3) s(-1). The comparison of the experimental data with calculated abstraction rate coefficients suggests that over the experimental temperature range, association of the OH radical to fulvenallene plays a significant role likely leading to a low fulvenallenyl branching fraction.
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- Juddha Thapa
- Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University , Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University , Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University , Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University , Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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da Silva G. Decomposition of Pyruvic Acid on the Ground-State Potential Energy Surface. J Phys Chem A 2015; 120:276-83. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b10078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Gabriel da Silva
- Department
of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Chakraborty A, Fulara J, Maier JP. The Electronic Spectrum of the Fulvenallenyl Radical. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 55:228-31. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201508961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Chakraborty A, Fulara J, Maier JP. The Electronic Spectrum of the Fulvenallenyl Radical. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201508961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The gas phase detection of benzocyclopropenyl is reported. In this aromatic resonance stabilized radical, a large angular strain is present due to a three-membered ring annelated to a benzene. The resonant two-color two-photon ionization technique is used to record the D1((2)A2) ← D0((2)B1) electronic transition of this radical after the in situ synthesis in a discharge source. The spectrum features absorptions up to 3300 cm(-1) above the origin band at 19,305 cm(-1). Benzocyclopropenyl is possibly the major product of the bimolecular reaction of benzene and an atomic carbon at low temperatures.
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- Surajit Maity
- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel , Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel , Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel , Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Mebel AM, Kaiser RI. Formation of resonantly stabilised free radicals via the reactions of atomic carbon, dicarbon, and tricarbon with unsaturated hydrocarbons: theory and crossed molecular beams experiments. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/0144235x.2015.1075280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Alexander M. Mebel
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Buckingham GT, Ormond TK, Porterfield JP, Hemberger P, Kostko O, Ahmed M, Robichaud DJ, Nimlos MR, Daily JW, Ellison GB. The thermal decomposition of the benzyl radical in a heated micro-reactor. I. Experimental findings. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:044307. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4906156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Grant T. Buckingham
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, USA
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, USA
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, USA
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- Molecular Dynamics Group, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
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- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Combustion and Environmental Research,University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0427, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, USA
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Kvaskoff D, Lüerssen H, Bednarek P, Wentrup C. Phenylnitrene, Phenylcarbene, and Pyridylcarbenes. Rearrangements to Cyanocyclopentadiene and Fulvenallene. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:15203-14. [DOI: 10.1021/ja506151p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- David Kvaskoff
- School
of Chemistry and Molecular
Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School
of Chemistry and Molecular
Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School
of Chemistry and Molecular
Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School
of Chemistry and Molecular
Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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da Silva G. Reaction of Benzene with Atomic Carbon: Pathways to Fulvenallene and the Fulvenallenyl Radical in Extraterrestrial Atmospheres and the Interstellar Medium. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:3967-72. [DOI: 10.1021/jp503431a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Gabriel da Silva
- Department
of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Hemberger P, Trevitt AJ, Gerber T, Ross E, da Silva G. Isomer-Specific Product Detection of Gas-Phase Xylyl Radical Rearrangement and Decomposition Using VUV Synchrotron Photoionization. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:3593-604. [DOI: 10.1021/jp501117n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Patrick Hemberger
- Molecular
Dynamics Group, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
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- Molecular
Dynamics Group, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Chakraborty A, Fulara J, Dietsche R, Maier JP. Spectroscopic characterization of C7H3+ and C7H3˙: electronic absorption and fluorescence in 6 K neon matrices. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:7023-30. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00043a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Electronic absorption spectra of mass-selected C7H3+ and C7H3˙ isomers in a neon matrix have been identified for the first time.
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- Arghya Chakraborty
- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstarasse 80, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland.
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Pinches SJ, da Silva G. On the Separation of Timescales in Chemically Activated Reactions. INT J CHEM KINET 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/kin.20774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Samuel J. Pinches
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; The University of Melbourne; Victoria 3010 Australia
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; The University of Melbourne; Victoria 3010 Australia
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Giegerich J, Fischer I. Photodissociation dynamics of fulvenallene, C7H6. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:13162-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp52274a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Chalyavi N, Troy TP, Bacskay GB, Nauta K, Kable SH, Reid SA, Schmidt TW. Excitation spectra of the jet-cooled 4-phenylbenzyl and 4-(4'-methylphenyl)benzyl radicals. J Phys Chem A 2012; 116:10780-5. [PMID: 23082991 DOI: 10.1021/jp309003u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The excitation spectra of jet-cooled 4-phenylbenzyl and 4-(4'-methylphenyl)benzyl radicals have been identified by a combination of resonant two-color two-photon ionization mass spectrometry and quantum chemical methods. Both radicals exhibit progressions in the biphenyl torsional mode, peaking near ν = 17. The lowest observed peak for 4-phenylbenzyl was observed at 18598 cm(-1) and is estimated to be the ν = 3 of the progression, while the lowest observed peak for the 4-(4'-methylphenyl)benzyl radical was observed at 18183 cm(-1) and is possibly the origin. The spectra are discussed and compared to other biphenyl and benzyl chromophores.
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- Nahid Chalyavi
- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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