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Kumar A, Anand VJ, Kumar P. Nitrous Acid (HONO) Dissociation on the Water and Ice Surface: An Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:4867-4875. [PMID: 38850256 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c02815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2024]
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In the atmosphere, the photodissociation of HONO is a significant source of OH radicals after ozone. In the present study, using Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics, we showed that HONO can dissociate on ice and water surfaces without light. In addition, the dissociation time of HONO is found to be much less on the ice surface compared to the same time on the water droplets.
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- Amit Kumar
- Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur 302017, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur 302017, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur 302017, India
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Qian Y, Nguyen TL, Franke PR, Stanton JF, Lester MI. Nonstatistical Unimolecular Decay of the CH 2OO Criegee Intermediate in the Tunneling Regime. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:6222-6229. [PMID: 38838341 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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Unimolecular decay of the formaldehyde oxide (CH2OO) Criegee intermediate proceeds via a 1,3 ring-closure pathway to dioxirane and subsequent rearrangement and/or dissociation to many products including hydroxyl (OH) radicals that are detected. Vibrational activation of jet-cooled CH2OO with two quanta of CH stretch (17-18 kcal mol-1) leads to unimolecular decay at an energy significantly below the transition state barrier of 19.46 ± 0.25 kcal mol-1, refined utilizing a high-level electronic structure method HEAT-345(Q)Λ. The observed unimolecular decay rate of 1.6 ± 0.4 × 106 s-1 is 2 orders of magnitude slower than that predicted by statistical unimolecular reaction theory using several different models for quantum mechanical tunneling. The nonstatistical behavior originates from excitation of a CH stretch vibration that is orthogonal to the heavy atom motions along the reaction coordinate and slow intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution due to the sparse density of states.
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- Yujie Qian
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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Chao W, Markus CR, Okumura M, Winiberg FAF, Percival CJ. Chemical Kinetic Study of the Reaction of CH 2OO with CH 3O 2. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:3690-3697. [PMID: 38546268 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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Criegee intermediates play an important role in the oxidizing capacity of the Earth's troposphere. Although extensive studies have been conducted on Criegee intermediates in the past decade, their kinetics with radical species remain underexplored. We investigated the kinetics of the simplest Criegee intermediate, CH2OO, with the methyl peroxy radical, CH3O2, as a model system to explore the reactivities of Criegee intermediates with peroxy radicals. Using a multipass UV-Vis spectrometer coupled to a pulsed-laser photolysis flow reactor, CH2OO and CH3O2 were generated simultaneously from the photolysis of CH2I2/CH3I/O2/N2 mixtures with CH2OO measured directly near 340 nm. We determined a reaction rate coefficient kCH2OO+CH3O2 = (1.7 ± 0.5) × 10-11 cm3 s-1 at 294 K and 10 Torr, where the influence of iodine adducts is reduced. This rate coefficient is faster than previous theoretical predictions, highlighting the challenges in accurately describing the interaction between zwitterionic and biradical characteristics of Criegee intermediates.
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- Wen Chao
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109-8099, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109-8099, United States
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109-8099, United States
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Sun C, Xu B, Zeng Y. Pressure and temperature dependent kinetics and the reaction mechanism of Criegee intermediates with vinyl alcohol: a theoretical study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:9524-9533. [PMID: 38451236 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp06115a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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Criegee intermediates (CIs), the key intermediates in the ozonolysis of olefins in atmosphere, have received much attention due to their high activity. The reaction mechanism of the most simple Criegee intermediate CH2OO with vinyl alcohol (VA) was investigated by using the HL//M06-2X/def2TZVP method. The temperature and pressure dependent rate constant and product branching ratio were calculated using the master equation method. For CH2OO + syn-VA, 1,4-insertion is the main reaction channel while for the CH2OO + anti-VA, cycloaddition and 1,2-insertion into the O-H bond are more favorable than the 1,4-insertion reaction. The 1,4-insertion or cycloaddition intermediates are stabilized collisionally at 300 K and 760 torr, and the dissociation products involving OH are formed at higher temperature and lower pressure. The rate constants of the CH2OO reaction with syn-VA and anti-VA both show negative temperature effects, and they are 2.95 × 10-11 and 2.07 × 10-13 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 at 300 K, respectively, and the former is agreement with the prediction in the literature.
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- Cuihong Sun
- Shijiazhuang Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, Technology Innovation Center of HeBei for Heterocyclic Compound, College of Chemical Engineering, Shijiazhuang University, Shijiazhuang 050035, P. R. China
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- Shijiazhuang Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, Technology Innovation Center of HeBei for Heterocyclic Compound, College of Chemical Engineering, Shijiazhuang University, Shijiazhuang 050035, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, P.R. China.
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Behera B, Lee YP. Detailed mechanism and kinetics of reactions of anti- and syn-CH 3CHOO with HC(O)OH: infrared spectra of conformers of hydroperoxyethyl formate. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:1950-1966. [PMID: 38116617 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04086k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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The reaction of CH3CHOO with HC(O)OH has a large rate coefficient so that it might play a significant role in the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) in the atmosphere. We investigated the detailed mechanism and kinetics of the reactions of Criegee intermediate anti- and syn-CH3CHOO with HC(O)OH with a step-scan Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer by recording time-resolved absorption spectra of transient species and end products produced upon irradiation at 308 nm of a flowing mixture of CH3CHI2/O2/HC(O)OH at 298 K and 60 Torr. Thirteen bands of hydroperoxyethyl formate [HC(O)OCH(CH3)OOH, HPEF], the hydrogen-transferred adduct of CH3CHOO and HC(O)OH, were observed. Careful analysis deconvoluted these bands into absorption of three conformers of HPEF: a transient HPEF (P2*/P3*), a more stable open-form HPEF (mainly P2), and a stable intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded HPEF (mainly P1). At a later period, the end-product formic acetic anhydride [CH3C(O)OC(O)H, FAA], a dehydrated product of HPEF, was observed; this end-product is the same as that observed in CH2OO + CH3C(O)OH. Theoretical calculations on the reaction pathway scheme were performed to elucidate these reaction paths. Syn-CH3CHOO + HC(O)OH produced conformers P2*/P3* initially, followed by conversion to conformers P2, whereas anti-CH3CHOO + HC(O)OH produced conformers P2 and P1 directly. We derived a rate coefficient for the reaction CH3CHOO + HC(O)OH to be k = (2.1 ± 0.7) × 10-10 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 at 298 K and 40-80 Torr; the rate coefficient appeared to show insignificant conformation-specificity. We also found that FAA was produced mainly from the dehydration of the open-form HPEF (P2) with a rate coefficient k = (1420 ± 70) s-1; the intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded HPEF (P1) is stable.
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- Bedabyas Behera
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan.
- Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan
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Liu T, Lester MI. Roaming in the Unimolecular Decay of syn-Methyl-Substituted Criegee Intermediates. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:10817-10827. [PMID: 38109698 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c05859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
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Alkene ozonolysis generates transient carbonyl oxide species, known as Criegee intermediates, which are a significant nonphotolytic source of OH radicals in the troposphere. This study demonstrates that unimolecular decay of syn-methyl-substituted Criegee intermediates proceeds via 1,4 H atom transfer to vinyl hydroperoxides, resulting in OH fission to O-O products or, alternatively, OH roaming to hydroxycarbonyl products. Newly generated Criegee intermediates are shown to yield hydroxycarbonyls with sufficient internal excitation to dissociate via C-C fission to acyl and hydroxymethyl (CH2OH) radicals. The stabilized Criegee intermediates and unimolecular products are rapidly cooled in a pulsed supersonic expansion for photoionization detection with time-of-flight mass spectrometry. CH2OH products are identified by 2 + 1 resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization via the 3pz Rydberg state upon unimolecular decay of CH3CHOO, (CH3)2COO, (CH3)(CH3CH2)COO, and (CH3)(CH2═CH)COO (methyl vinyl ketone oxide). The stabilized Criegee intermediates are separately detected using 10.5 eV photoionization. This study provides the first experimental evidence of roaming in the unimolecular decay of isoprene-derived methyl vinyl ketone oxide and extends earlier studies that reported stabilized hydroxycarbonyl products.
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- Tianlin Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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Klippenstein SJ, Elliott SN. OH Roaming during the Ozonolysis of α-Pinene: A New Route to Highly Oxygenated Molecules? J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:10647-10662. [PMID: 38055299 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c05179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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The formation of low-volatility organic compounds in the ozonolysis of α-pinene, the dominant atmospheric monoterpene, provides an important route to aerosol formation. In this work, we consider a previously unexplored set of pathways for the formation of highly oxygenated molecules in α-pinene ozonolysis. Pioneering, direct experimental observations of Lester and co-workers have demonstrated a significant production of hydroxycarbonyl products in the dissociation of Criegee intermediates. Theoretical analyses indicate that this production arises from OH roaming-induced pathways during the OO fission of the vinylhydroperoxides (VHPs), which in turn come from internal H transfers in the Criegee intermediates. Ab initio kinetics computations are used here to explore the OH roaming-induced channels that arise from the ozonolysis of α-pinene. For computational reasons, the calculations consider a surrogate for α-pinene, where two spectator methyl groups are replaced with H atoms. Multireference electronic structure calculations are used to illustrate a variety of energetically accessible OH roaming pathways for the four VHPs arising from the ozonolysis of this α-pinene surrogate. Ab initio transition-state theory-based master equation calculations indicate that for the dissociation of stabilized VHPs, these OH roaming pathways are kinetically significant with a branching that generally increases from ∼20% at room temperature up to ∼70% at lower temperatures representative of the troposphere. For one of the VHPs, this branching already exceeds 60% at room temperature. For the overall ozonolysis process, these branching ratios would be greatly reduced by a limited branching to the stabilized VHP, although there would also be some modest roaming fraction for the nonthermal VHP dissociation process. The strong exothermicities of the roaming-induced isomerizations/additions and abstractions suggest new routes to fission of the cyclobutane rings. Such ring fissions would facilitate further autoxidation reactions, thereby providing a new route for producing highly oxygenated nonvolatile precursors to aerosol formation.
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- Stephen J Klippenstein
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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Liu T, Elliott SN, Zou M, Vansco MF, Sojdak CA, Markus CR, Almeida R, Au K, Sheps L, Osborn DL, Winiberg FAF, Percival CJ, Taatjes CA, Caravan RL, Klippenstein SJ, Lester MI. OH Roaming and Beyond in the Unimolecular Decay of the Methyl-Ethyl-Substituted Criegee Intermediate: Observations and Predictions. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:19405-19420. [PMID: 37623926 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c07126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Alkene ozonolysis generates short-lived Criegee intermediates that are a significant source of hydroxyl (OH) radicals. This study demonstrates that roaming of the separating OH radicals can yield alternate hydroxycarbonyl products, thereby reducing the OH yield. Specifically, hydroxybutanone has been detected as a stable product arising from roaming in the unimolecular decay of the methyl-ethyl-substituted Criegee intermediate (MECI) under thermal flow cell conditions. The dynamical features of this novel multistage dissociation plus a roaming unimolecular decay process have also been examined with ab initio kinetics calculations. Experimentally, hydroxybutanone isomers are distinguished from the isomeric MECI by their higher ionization threshold and distinctive photoionization spectra. Moreover, the exponential rise of the hydroxybutanone kinetic time profile matches that for the unimolecular decay of MECI. A weaker methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) photoionization signal is also attributed to OH roaming. Complementary multireference electronic structure calculations have been utilized to map the unimolecular decay pathways for MECI, starting with 1,4 H atom transfer from a methyl or methylene group to the terminal oxygen, followed by roaming of the separating OH and butanonyl radicals in the long-range region of the potential. Roaming via reorientation and the addition of OH to the vinyl group of butanonyl is shown to yield hydroxybutanone, and subsequent C-O elongation and H-transfer can lead to MVK. A comprehensive theoretical kinetic analysis has been conducted to evaluate rate constants and branching yields (ca. 10-11%) for thermal unimolecular decay of MECI to conventional and roaming products under laboratory and atmospheric conditions, consistent with the estimated experimental yield (ca. 7%).
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- Tianlin Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109, United States
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Mailstop 9055, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Mailstop 9055, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Mailstop 9055, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Mailstop 9055, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109, United States
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Mailstop 9055, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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Su ZS, Lee YP. Infrared Characterization of the Products of the Reaction between the Criegee Intermediate CH 3CHOO and HCl. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:6902-6915. [PMID: 37561815 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c03527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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The rapid reactions between Criegee intermediates and hydrogen halides play important roles in atmospheric chemistry, particularly in the polluted urban atmosphere. Employing a step-scan Fourier transform spectrometer, we recorded infrared absorption spectra of transient species and end products of the reaction CH3CHOO + HCl in a flowing mixture of CH3CHI2/HCl/O2/N2 irradiated at 308 nm. Bands at 1453.6, 1383.7, 1357.9, 1323.8, 1271.8, 1146.2, 1098.2, 1017.5, 931.5, and 847.0 cm-1 were observed and assigned to the anti-conformer of chloroethyl hydroperoxide (anti-CEHP or anti-CH3CHClOOH). In addition, absorption bands of H2O and acetyl chloride [CH3C(O)Cl, at 1819.1 cm-1] were observed; some of them were produced from the secondary reactions of CH3CHClO + O2 → CH3C(O)Cl + HO2 and OH + HCl → H2O + Cl, according to temporal profiles of H2O and CH3C(O)Cl. These secondary reactions are conceivable because the nascent formation of CH3CHClO + OH via decomposition of internally excited CEHP was predicted by theory, and both HCl and O2 are major species in the system. The nascent formation of CH3CHClO + OH appears to be more important than that of CH3C(O)Cl + H2O, consistent with theoretical predictions. By adding methanol to deplete some anti-CH3CHOO, we observed only anti-CEHP with a reduced proportion; this observation indicates that the conversion from syn-CEHP, expected to be produced from syn-CH3CHOO + HCl, to anti-CEHP is facile. We also estimated the overall rate coefficient of the reaction syn-/anti-CH3CHOO + HCl to be kHCl = (2.7 ± 1.0) × 10-10 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 at ∼70 Torr and 298 K; this rate coefficient is about six times the only literature value kHClsyn = (4.77 ± 0.95) × 10-11 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 reported for syn-CH3CHOO + HCl by Liu et al., indicating that anti-CH3CHOO reacts with HCl much more rapidly than syn-CH3CHOO.
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- Zih-Syuan Su
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan
- Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan
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Poirier CA, Guidry LM, Ratliff JM, Esposito VJ, Marchetti B, Karsili TNV. Modeling the Ground- and Excited-State Unimolecular Decay of the Simplest Fluorinated Criegee Intermediate, HFCOO, Formed from the Ozonolysis of Hydrofluoroolefin Refrigerants. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:6377-6384. [PMID: 37523496 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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Hydrofluoroolefins (HFO) are fourth-generation refrigerants designed to function as efficient refrigerants with no ozone depletion potential and zero global warming potential. Despite extensive studies on their chemical and physical properties, the ground- and excited-state chemistry of their atmospheric oxidation products is less well understood. This study focuses on the ground- and excited-state chemistry of the simplest fluorinated Criegee intermediate (CI), fluoroformaldehyde oxide (HFCOO), which is the simplest fluorinated CI formed from the ozonolysis of HFOs. HFCOO contains syn- and anti-conformers, which have Boltzmann populations of, respectively, 87 and 13% at 298 K. For both conformers, the calculated ground-state reaction energy profiles associated with cyclization to form fluorodioxirane is lower than the equivalent unimolecular decay path in the simplest CI, H2COO, with anti-HFCOO returning a barrier height more than half of that of H2COO. The excited-state dynamics reveal that photoexcitation to the bright S2 state of syn-HFCOO and anti-HFCOO is expected to undergo a prompt O-O fission─with the former conformer expected to dissociate with an almost unity quantum yield and to form both O (1D) + HFCO (S0) and O (3P) + HFCO (T1) products. In contrast, photoexcitation of anti-HFCOO is expected to undergo an O-O bond fission with a non-unity quantum yield. The fraction of photoexcited anti-HFCOO that dissociates is predicted to exclusively form O (1D) + HFCO (S0) products, which is in sharp contrast to H2COO. The wider implications of our results are discussed from both physical and atmospheric chemistry perspectives.
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- Courtney A Poirier
- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, United States
- Regional Application Center, NASA/University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70506, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, United States
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- NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035-1000, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, United States
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Sun Y, Long B, Truhlar DG. Unimolecular Reactions of E-Glycolaldehyde Oxide and Its Reactions with One and Two Water Molecules. RESEARCH (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2023; 6:0143. [PMID: 37435010 PMCID: PMC10332847 DOI: 10.34133/research.0143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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The kinetics of Criegee intermediates are important for atmospheric modeling. However, the quantitative kinetics of Criegee intermediates are still very limited, especially for those with hydroxy groups. Here, we calculate rate constants for the unimolecular reaction of E-glycolaldehyde oxide [E-hydroxyethanal oxide, E-(CH2OH)CHOO], for its reactions with H2O and (H2O)2, and for the reaction of the E-(CH2OH)CHOO…H2O complex with H2O. For the highest level of electronic structure, we use W3X-L//CCSD(T)-F12a/cc-pVDZ-F12 for the unimolecular reaction and the reaction with water and W3X-L//DF-CCSD(T)-F12b/jun-cc-pVDZ for the reaction with 2 water molecules. For the dynamics, we use a dual-level strategy that combines conventional transition state theory with the highest level of electronic structure and multistructural canonical variational transition state theory with small-curvature tunneling with a validated density functional for the electronic structure. This dynamical treatment includes high-frequency anharmonicity, torsional anharmonicity, recrossing effects, and tunneling. We find that the unimolecular reaction of E-(CH2OH)CHOO depends on both temperature and pressure. The calculated results show that E-(CH2OH)CHOO…H2O + H2O is the dominant entrance channel, while previous investigations only considered Criegee intermediates + (H2O)2. In addition, we find that the atmospheric lifetime of E-(CH2OH)CHOO with respect to 2 water molecules is particularly short with a value of 1.71 × 10-6 s at 0 km, which is about 2 orders of magnitude shorter than those usually assumed for Criegee intermediate reactions with water dimer. We also find that the OH group in E-(CH2OH)CHOO enhances its reactivity.
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- Yan Sun
- Department of Physics, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- Department of Physics, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0431, USA
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Ito Y, Kominato M, Nakashima Y, Ohshimo K, Misaizu F. Fragment imaging in the infrared photodissociation of the Ar-tagged protonated water clusters H 3O +-Ar and H +(H 2O) 2-Ar. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:9404-9412. [PMID: 36928842 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp00469d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2023]
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Infrared photodissociation of protonated water clusters with an Ar atom, namely H3O+-Ar and H+(H2O)2-Ar, was investigated by an imaging technique for mass-selected ions, to reveal the intra- and intermolecular vibrational dynamics. The presented system has the advantage of achieving fragment ion images with the cluster size- and mode-selective photoexcitation of each OH stretching vibration. Translational energy distributions of photofragments were obtained from the images upon the excitation of the bound (νb) and free (νf) OH stretching vibrations. The energy fractions in the translational motion were compared between νbI and νfI in H3O+-Ar or between νbII and νfII in H+(H2O)2-Ar, where the labels "I" and "II" represent H3O+-Ar and H+(H2O)2-Ar, respectively. In H3O+-Ar, the νfI excitation exhibited a smaller translational energy than νbI. This result can be explained by the higher vibrational energy of νfI, which enabled it to produce bending (ν4) excited H3O+ fragments that should be favored according to the energy-gap model. In contrast to H3O+-Ar, the νbII excitation of an Ar-tagged H2O subunit and the νfII excitation of an untagged H2O subunit resulted in very similar translational energy distributions in H+(H2O)2-Ar. The similar energy fractions independent of the excited H2O subunits suggested that the νbII and νfII excited states relaxed into a common intermediate state, in which the vibrational energy was delocalized within the H2O-H+-H2O moiety. However, the translational energy distributions for H+(H2O)2-Ar did not agree with a statistical dissociation model, which implied another aspect of the process, that is, Ar dissociation via incomplete energy randomization in the whole H+(H2O)2-Ar cluster.
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- Yuri Ito
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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Wang G, Liu T, Zou M, Karsili TNV, Lester MI. UV photodissociation dynamics of the acetone oxide Criegee intermediate: experiment and theory. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:7453-7465. [PMID: 36848133 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp00207a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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The photodissociation dynamics of the dimethyl-substituted acetone oxide Criegee intermediate [(CH3)2COO] is characterized following electronic excitation to the bright 1ππ* state, which leads to O (1D) + acetone [(CH3)2CO, S0] products. The UV action spectrum of (CH3)2COO recorded with O (1D) detection under jet-cooled conditions is broad, unstructured, and essentially unchanged from the corresponding electronic absorption spectrum obtained using a UV-induced depletion method. This indicates that UV excitation of (CH3)2COO leads predominantly to the O (1D) product channel. A higher energy O (3P) + (CH3)2CO (T1) product channel is not observed, although it is energetically accessible. In addition, complementary MS-CASPT2 trajectory surface-hopping (TSH) simulations indicate minimal population leading to the O (3P) channel and non-unity overall probability for dissociation (within 100 fs). Velocity map imaging of the O (1D) products is utilized to reveal the total kinetic energy release (TKER) distribution upon photodissociation of (CH3)2COO at various UV excitation energies. Simulation of the TKER distributions is performed using a hybrid model that combines an impulsive model with a statistical component, the latter reflecting the longer-lived (>100 fs) trajectories identified in the TSH calculations. The impulsive model accounts for vibrational activation of (CH3)2CO arising from geometrical changes between the Criegee intermediate and the carbonyl product, indicating the importance of CO stretch, CCO bend, and CC stretch along with activation of hindered rotation and rock of the methyl groups in the (CH3)2CO product. Detailed comparison is also made with the TKER distribution arising from photodissociation dynamics of CH2OO upon UV excitation.
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- Guanghan Wang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, USA.
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Reactions with criegee intermediates are the dominant gas-phase sink for formyl fluoride in the atmosphere. FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2023.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023] Open
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Theoretical Study on the Gas Phase and Gas-Liquid Interface Reaction Mechanism of Criegee Intermediates with Glycolic Acid Sulfate. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24043355. [PMID: 36834768 PMCID: PMC9965808 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24043355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
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Criegee intermediates (CIs) are important zwitterionic oxidants in the atmosphere, which affect the budget of OH radicals, amines, alcohols, organic/inorganic acids, etc. In this study, quantum chemical calculation and Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamic (BOMD) simulation were performed to show the reaction mechanisms of C2 CIs with glycolic acid sulfate (GAS) at the gas-phase and gas-liquid interface, respectively. The results indicate that CIs can react with COOH and OSO3H groups of GAS and generate hydroperoxide products. Intramolecular proton transfer reactions occurred in the simulations. Moreover, GAS acts as a proton donor and participates in the hydration of CIs, during which the intramolecular proton transfer also occurs. As GAS widely exists in atmospheric particulate matter, the reaction with GAS is one of the sink pathways of CIs in areas polluted by particulate matter.
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Wang G, Liu T, Zou M, Sojdak CA, Kozlowski MC, Karsili TNV, Lester MI. Electronic Spectroscopy and Dissociation Dynamics of Vinyl-Substituted Criegee Intermediates: 2-Butenal Oxide and Comparison with Methyl Vinyl Ketone Oxide and Methacrolein Oxide Isomers. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:203-215. [PMID: 36574960 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The 2-butenal oxide Criegee intermediate [(CH3CH═CH)CHOO], an isomer of the four-carbon unsaturated Criegee intermediates derived from isoprene ozonolysis, is characterized on its first π* ← π electronic transition and by the resultant dissociation dynamics to O (1D) + 2-butenal [(CH3CH═CH)CHO] products. The electronic spectrum of 2-butenal oxide under jet-cooled conditions is observed to be broad and unstructured with peak absorption at 373 nm, spanning to half maxima at 320 and 420 nm, and in good accord with the computed vertical excitation energies and absorption spectra obtained for its lowest energy conformers. The distribution of total kinetic energy released to products is ascertained through velocity map imaging of the O (1D) products. About half of the available energy, deduced from the theoretically computed asymptotic energy, is accommodated as internal excitation of the 2-butenal fragment. A reduced impulsive model is introduced to interpret the photodissociation dynamics, which accounts for the geometric changes between 2-butenal oxide and the 2-butenal fragment, and vibrational activation of associated modes in the 2-butenal product. Application of the reduced impulsive model to the photodissociation of isomeric methyl vinyl ketone oxide reveals greater internal activation of the methyl vinyl ketone product arising from methyl internal rotation and rock, which is distinctly different from the dissociation dynamics of 2-butenal oxide or methacrolein oxide.
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- Guanghan Wang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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Karsili TNV, Marchetti B, Lester MI, Ashfold MNR. Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Criegee Intermediates. Photochem Photobiol 2023; 99:4-18. [PMID: 35713380 DOI: 10.1111/php.13665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Interest in Criegee intermediates (CIs), often termed carbonyl oxides, and their role in tropospheric chemistry has grown massively since the demonstration of laboratory-based routes to their formation and characterization in the gas phase. This article reviews current knowledge regarding the electronic spectroscopy of atmospherically relevant CIs like CH2 OO, CH3 CHOO, (CH3 )2 COO and larger CIs like methyl vinyl ketone oxide and methacrolein oxide that are formed in the ozonolysis of isoprene, and of selected conjugated carbene-derived CIs of interest in the synthetic chemistry community. Of the aforementioned atmospherically relevant CIs, all except CH2 OO and (CH3 )2 COO exist in different conformers which, under tropospheric conditions, can display strikingly different thermal loss rates via unimolecular and bimolecular processes. Calculated photolysis rates based on their absorption properties suggest that solar photolysis will rarely be a significant contributor to the total loss rate for any CI under tropospheric conditions. Nonetheless, there is ever-growing interest in the absorption cross sections and primary photochemistry of CIs following excitation to the strongly absorbing 1 ππ* state, and how this varies with CI, with conformer and with excitation wavelength. The later part of this review surveys the photochemical data reported to date, including a range of studies that demonstrate prompt photo-induced fission of the terminal O-O bond, and speculates about possible alternate decay processes that could occur following non-adiabatic coupling to, and dissociation from, highly internally excited levels of the electronic ground state of a CI.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Nazari A, Saheb V. Theoretical kinetics studies on the temperature and pressure dependence of the reaction of ammonia with the Criegee intermediate CH2OO. Theor Chem Acc 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-022-02930-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Robinson C, Onel L, Newman J, Lade R, Au K, Sheps L, Heard DE, Seakins PW, Blitz MA, Stone D. Unimolecular Kinetics of Stabilized CH 3CHOO Criegee Intermediates: syn-CH 3CHOO Decomposition and anti-CH 3CHOO Isomerization. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:6984-6994. [PMID: 36146923 PMCID: PMC9549458 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c05461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2022] [Revised: 09/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The kinetics of the unimolecular decomposition of the stabilized Criegee intermediate syn-CH3CHOO has been investigated at temperatures between 297 and 331 K and pressures between 12 and 300 Torr using laser flash photolysis of CH3CHI2/O2/N2 gas mixtures coupled with time-resolved broadband UV absorption spectroscopy. Fits to experimental results using the Master Equation Solver for Multi-Energy well Reactions (MESMER) indicate that the barrier height to decomposition is 67.2 ± 1.3 kJ mol-1 and that there is a strong tunneling component to the decomposition reaction under atmospheric conditions. At 298 K and 760 Torr, MESMER simulations indicate a rate coefficient of 150-81+176 s-1 when tunneling effects are included but only 5-2+3 s-1 when tunneling is not considered in the model. MESMER simulations were also performed for the unimolecular isomerization of the stabilized Criegee intermediate anti-CH3CHOO to methyldioxirane, indicating a rate coefficient of 54-21+34 s-1 at 298 K and 760 Torr, which is not impacted by tunneling effects. Expressions to describe the unimolecular kinetics of syn- and anti-CH3CHOO are provided for use in atmospheric models, and atmospheric implications are discussed.
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- Callum Robinson
- School
of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
- National
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
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Liu T, Zou M, Caracciolo A, Sojdak CA, Lester MI. Substituent Effects on the Electronic Spectroscopy of Four-Carbon Criegee Intermediates. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:6734-6741. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c05502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Tianlin Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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Zhao YC, Long B, Francisco JS. Quantitative Kinetics of the Reaction between CH 2OO and H 2O 2 in the Atmosphere. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:6742-6750. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yong-Chao Zhao
- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Takahashi K. Wave Packet Calculation of Absolute UV Cross Section of Criegee Intermediates. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:6080-6090. [PMID: 36041057 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Criegee intermediates, R1R2COO, are reactive species formed in the atmosphere through the ozonolysis of alkenes. They have an intense ultraviolet (UV) adsorption between 300 to 400 nm. However, experimentally determining the absolute cross sections is not easy. We used wave packet propagation on an one-dimensional adiabatic potential energy curve (PEC) along the OO bond to simulate the UV spectra for various Criegee intermediates. Our results showed a very fast, ∼20 fs, decay out of the Franck-Condon region. This gives justification for using the semiclassical approach which was utilized in previous studies. From the comparison of various quantum chemistry methods, we found that multireference methods can give spectra with a width and cross section reproducing the experimental results, while single reference methods tend to give narrower skewed peaks with a larger cross section. From the test using wave packet propagation on various approximated PECs and transition moment functions, we show that the Gaussian approximation within the reflection method is valid. In addition, we found that we can obtain peak positions that reproduce the experimental results by shifting those obtained by MRCI+Q, CASSCF, EOMCCSD, and TDCAMB3LYP by -0.2, -1.0, -0.3, and -0.5 eV, respectively. The Gaussian approximation using peak position, oscillator strength, and peak width from MRCI+Q is a cost-effective way to simulate the UV spectra of Crigee intermediates for which experimental determination may be hard.
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- Kaito Takahashi
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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Chung CA, Hsu CW, Lee YP. Infrared Characterization of the Products and Rate Coefficient of the Reaction between Criegee Intermediate CH 2OO and HNO 3. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:5738-5750. [PMID: 35994612 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The reactions of Criegee intermediates with HNO3 are important in the polluted urban atmosphere because of their large rate coefficients and the significant concentration of HNO3. Employing a step-scan Fourier-transform spectrometer, we recorded infrared spectra of transient species and end products in the reaction CH2OO + HNO3 upon irradiation of a flowing mixture of CH2I2/HNO3/N2/O2 at 308 nm. Eight bands at 1686, 1426, 1348, 1294, 1052, 965, 891, and 825 cm-1 were assigned to the absorption of the adduct nitrooxymethyl hydroperoxide (NMHP, NO3CH2OOH). Additional products from two dissociation channels were observed. Four bands at 1709, 1325, 1276, and 886 cm-1 were assigned to H2C(O)ONO2 (with coproduct OH), produced from the fission of the O-O bond of internally hot NMHP (NMHP*). Simultaneous detection of H2CO (1746 cm-1), NO2 (1617 cm-1), and HO2 (1392 and 1098 cm-1) indicated a direct cleavage of the N-OC and C-OO bonds of NMHP*. The relative yields of these three channels in pressure range 10-150 Torr were estimated. At 10 Torr, the absorption of internally excited HNO3 near 885 and 1320 cm-1 was also detected at an early stage of the reaction. We investigated also the rate coefficient of the reaction CH2OO + HNO3 by probing the temporal profiles of the formation of NMHP and NO2 under total pressures of 40 and 70 Torr at 298 K. The rate coefficient kHNO3 = (2.4 ± 0.4) × 10-10 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 is less than half the only literature value, (5.4 ± 1.0) × 10-10 cm3 molecule-1 s-1, reported by Foreman et al. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 10419-10422).
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Behera B, Takahashi K, Lee YP. Mechanism and kinetics of the reaction of the Criegee intermediate CH 2OO with acetic acid studied using a step-scan Fourier-transform IR spectrometer. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:18568-18581. [PMID: 35917139 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01053d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Acetic acid, CH3C(O)OH, plays an important role in the acidity of the troposphere. The reactions of Criegee intermediates with CH3C(O)OH have been proposed to be a potential source of secondary organic aerosol in the atmosphere. We investigated the detailed mechanism and kinetics of the reaction of the Criegee intermediate CH2OO with CH3C(O)OH. The time-resolved infrared absorption spectra of transient species produced upon irradiation at 308 nm of a flowing mixture of CH2I2/O2/CH3C(O)OH at 298 K were recorded using a step-scan Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer. The decrease in the intensity of the bands of CH2OO was accompanied by the appearance of bands near 886, 971, 1021, 1078, 1160, 1225, 1377, 1402, 1434, and 1777 cm-1, assigned to the absorption of hydroperoxymethyl acetate [CH3C(O)OCH2OOH, HPMA], the hydrogen-transferred adduct of CH2OO and CH3C(O)OH. Two types of conformers of HPMA, an open form and an intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded form, were identified. At a later reaction period, bands of the open-form HPMA became diminished, and new bands appeared at 930, 1045, 1200, 1378, 1792, and 1810 cm-1, assigned to formic acetic anhydride [CH3C(O)OC(O)H, FAA], a dehydrated product of HPMA. The intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded HPMA is more stable. From the temporal profiles of HPMA and FAA, we derived a rate coefficient k = (1.3 ± 0.3) × 10-10 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 for the reaction CH2OO + CH3C(O)OH to form HPMA and a rate coefficient k = 980 ± 40 s-1 for the dehydration of the open-form HPMA to form FAA. Theoretical calculations were performed to elucidate the CH2OO + CH3C(O)OH reaction pathway and to understand the distinct reactivity of these two forms of HPMA.
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- Bedabyas Behera
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 106319, Taiwan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan.,Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan.
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Davis MC, Garrett NR, Fortenberry RC. Confirmation of gaseous methanediol from state-of-the-art theoretical rovibrational characterization. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:18552-18558. [PMID: 35904881 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02076a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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High-level rovibrational characterization of methanediol, the simplest geminal diol, using state-of-the-art, purely ab initio techniques unequivocally confirms previously reported gas phase preparation of this simplest geminal diol in its C2 conformation. The F12-TZ-cCR and F12-DZ-cCR quartic force fields (QFFs) utilized in this work are among the largest coupled cluster-based anharmonic frequencies computed to date, and they match the experimental band origins of the spectral features in the 980-1100 cm-1 range to within 3 cm-1, representing a significant improvement over previous studies. The simulated spectrum also matches the experimental spectrum in the strong Q branch feature and qualitative shape of the 980-1100 cm-1 region. Additionally, the full set of rotational constants, anharmonic vibrational frequencies, and quartic and sextic distortion constants are provided for both the lowest energy C2 conformer as well as the slightly higher Cs conformer. Several vibrational modes have intensities of 60 km mol-1 or higher, facilitating potential astronomical or atmospheric detection of methanediol or further identification in laboratory work especially now that gas phase synthesis of this molecule has been established.
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- Megan C Davis
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677-1848, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677-1848, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677-1848, USA.
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Wang PB, Truhlar DG, Xia Y, Long B. Temperature-dependent kinetics of the atmospheric reaction between CH 2OO and acetone. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:13066-13073. [PMID: 35583864 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01118b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Criegee intermediates are important oxidants produced in the ozonolysis of alkenes in the atmosphere. Quantitative kinetics of the reactions of Criegee intermediates are required for atmospheric modeling. However, the experimental studies do not cover the full relevant range of temperature and pressure. Here we report the quantitative kinetics of CH2OO + CH3C(O)CH3 by using our recently developed dual strategy that combines coupled cluster theory with high excitation levels for conventional transition state theory and well validated levels of density functional theory for direct dynamics calculations using canonical variational transition theory including tunneling. We find that the W3X-L//DF-CCSD(T)-F12b/jun-cc-pVDZ electronic structure method can be used to obtain quantitative kinetics of the CH2OO + CH3C(O)CH3 reaction. Whereas previous investigations considered a one-step mechanistic pathway, we find that the CH2OO + CH3C(O)CH3 reaction occurs in a stepwise manner. This has implications for the modeling of Criegee-intermediate reactions with other ketones and with aldehydes. In the kinetics calculations, we show that recrossing effects of the conventional transition state are negligible for determining the rate constant of CH2OO + CH3C(O)CH3. The present findings reveal that the rate ratio between CH2OO + CH3C(O)CH3 and OH + CH3C(O)CH3 has a significant negative dependence on temperature such that the CH2OO + CH3C(O)CH3 reaction can contribute as a significant sink for atmospheric CH3C(O)CH3 at low temperature. The present findings should have broad implications in understanding the reactions of Criegee intermediates with carbonyl compounds and ketones in the atmosphere.
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- Peng-Biao Wang
- Department of Physics, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, USA
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- Department of Physics, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China. .,College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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Luo PL, Chen IY. Synchronized Two-Color Time-Resolved Dual-Comb Spectroscopy for Quantitative Detection of HO x Radicals Formed from Criegee Intermediates. Anal Chem 2022; 94:5752-5759. [PMID: 35377143 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Criegee intermediates, derived from ozonolysis of alkenes and recognized as key species in the production of nonphotolytic free radicals, play a crucial role in atmospheric chemistry. Here, we present a spectrometer based on synchronized two-color time-resolved dual-comb spectroscopy, enabling simultaneous spectral acquisitions in two molecular fingerprint regions near 2.9 and 7.8 μm. Upon flash photolysis of CH2I2/O2/N2 gas mixtures, multiple reaction species, involving the simplest Criegee intermediates (CH2OO), formaldehyde (CH2O), hydroxyl (OH) and hydroperoxy (HO2) radicals are simultaneously detected with microsecond time resolution. The concentration of each molecule can be determined based on high-resolution rovibrational absorption spectroscopy. With quantitative detection and simulation of temporal concentration profiles of the targeted molecules at various conditions, the underlying reaction mechanisms and pathways related to the formation of the HOx radicals, which can be generated from decomposition of initially energized and vibrationally excited Criegee intermediates, are explored. This approach capable of achieving multispectral measurements with simultaneously high spectral and temporal resolutions opens up the opportunities for quantification of transient intermediates and products, thus, enabling elucidation of complex reaction mechanisms.
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- Pei-Ling Luo
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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Wang L, Wu Z, Lu B, Zeng X. Spectroscopic characterization and photochemistry of the Criegee intermediate CF 3C(H)OO. J Environ Sci (China) 2022; 114:160-169. [PMID: 35459481 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2021.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Criegee intermediates (CIs), also known as carbonyl oxide, are reactive intermediates that play an important role in the atmospheric chemistry. Investigation on the structures and reactivity of CIs is of fundamental importance in understanding the underlying mechanism of their atmospheric reactions. In sharp contrast to the intensively studied parent molecule (CH2OO) and the alkyl-substituted derivatives, the knowledge about the fluorinated analogue CF3C(H)OO is scarce. By carefully heating the triplet carbene CF3CH in an O2-doped Ar-matrix to 35 K, the elusive carbonyl oxide CF3C(H)OO in syn- and anti-conformations has been generated and characterized with infrared (IR) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy. The spectroscopic identification is supported by 18O-labeling experiments and quantum chemical calculations at the B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,3pd) and MP2/6-311++G(2d,2p) levels. Upon the long-wavelength irradiation (λ > 680 nm), both conformers of CF3C(H)OO decompose to give trifluoroacetaldehyde CF3C(H)O and simultaneously rearrange to the isomeric dioxirane, cyclic-CF3CH(OO), which undergoes isomerization to the lowest-energy carboxylic acid CF3C(O)OH upon UV-light excitation at 365 nm. The O2-oxidation of CF3CH via the intermediacy of CF3C(H)OO and cyclic-CF3CH(OO) might provide new insight into the mechanism for the degradation of hydro-chlorofluorocarbon CF3CHCl2 (HCFC-123) in the atmosphere.
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- Lina Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysts and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysts and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysts and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysts and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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Hansen AS, Qian Y, Sojdak CA, Kozlowski MC, Esposito VJ, Francisco JS, Klippenstein SJ, Lester MI. Rapid Allylic 1,6 H-Atom Transfer in an Unsaturated Criegee Intermediate. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:5945-5955. [PMID: 35344666 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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A novel allylic 1,6 hydrogen-atom-transfer mechanism is established through infrared activation of the 2-butenal oxide Criegee intermediate, resulting in very rapid unimolecular decay to hydroxyl (OH) radical products. A new precursor, Z/E-1,3-diiodobut-1-ene, is synthesized and photolyzed in the presence of oxygen to generate a new four-carbon Criegee intermediate with extended conjugation across the vinyl and carbonyl oxide groups that facilitates rapid allylic 1,6 H-atom transfer. A low-energy reaction pathway involving isomerization of 2-butenal oxide from a lower-energy (tZZ) conformer to a higher-energy (cZZ) conformer followed by 1,6 hydrogen transfer via a seven-membered ring transition state is predicted theoretically and shown experimentally to yield OH products. The low-lying (tZZ) conformer of 2-butenal oxide is identified based on computed anharmonic frequencies and intensities of its conformers. Experimental IR action spectra recorded in the fundamental CH stretch region with OH product detection by UV laser-induced fluorescence reveal a distinctive IR transition of the low-lying (tZZ) conformer at 2996 cm-1 that results in rapid unimolecular decay to OH products. Statistical RRKM calculations involving a combination of conformational isomerization and unimolecular decay via 1,6 H-transfer yield an effective decay rate keff(E) on the order of 108 s-1 at ca. 3000 cm-1 in good accord with the experiment. Unimolecular decay proceeds with significant enhancement due to quantum mechanical tunneling. A rapid thermal decay rate of ca. 106 s-1 is predicted by master-equation modeling of 2-butenal oxide at 298 K, 1 bar. This novel unimolecular decay pathway is expected to increase the nonphotolytic production of OH radicals upon alkene ozonolysis in the troposphere.
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- Anne S Hansen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323 United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323 United States
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Xia Y, Long B, Lin S, Teng C, Bao JL, Truhlar DG. Large Pressure Effects Caused by Internal Rotation in the s-cis-syn-Acrolein Stabilized Criegee Intermediate at Tropospheric Temperature and Pressure. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:4828-4838. [PMID: 35262353 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Criegee intermediates are important atmospheric oxidants, and quantitative kinetics for stabilized Criegee intermediates are key parameters for atmospheric modeling but are still limited. Here we report barriers and rate constants for unimolecular reactions of s-cis-syn-acrolein oxide (scsAO), in which the vinyl group makes it a prototype for Criegee intermediates produced in the ozonolysis of isoprene. We find that the MN15-L and M06-2X density functionals have CCSD(T)/CBS accuracy for the unimolecular cyclization and stereoisomerization of scsAO. We calculated high-pressure-limit rate constants by the dual-level strategy that combines (a) high-level wave function-based conventional transition-state theory (which includes coupled-cluster calculations with quasiperturbative inclusion of quadruple excitations because of the strongly multiconfigurational character of the electronic wave function) and (b) canonical variational transition-state theory with small-curvature tunneling based on a validated density functional. We calculated pressure-dependent rate constants both by system-specific quantum Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel theory and by solving the master equation. We report rate constants for unimolecular reactions of scsAO over the full range of atmospheric temperature and pressure. We found that the unimolecular reaction rates of this larger-than-previously studied Criegee intermediate depend significantly on pressure. Particularly, we found that falloff effects decrease the effective unimolecular cyclization rate constant of scsAO by about a factor of 3, but the unimolecular reaction is still the dominant atmospheric sink for scsAO at low altitudes. The large falloff caused by the inclusion of the stereoisomerization channel in the master equation calculations has broad implications for mechanistic analysis of reactions with competitive internal rotations that can produce stable rotamers.
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- Yu Xia
- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China.,College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China.,College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Formation reaction mechanism and infrared spectra of anti-trans-methacrolein oxide and its associated precursor and adduct radicals. Commun Chem 2022; 5:26. [PMID: 36697653 PMCID: PMC9814089 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-022-00644-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Methacrolein oxide (MACRO) is an important carbonyl oxide produced in ozonolysis of isoprene, the most abundantly-emitted non-methane hydrocarbon in the atmosphere. We employed a step-scan Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer to investigate the source reaction of MACRO in laboratories. Upon UV irradiation of precursor CH2IC(CH3)CHI (1), the CH2C(CH3)CHI radical (2) was detected, confirming the fission of the allylic C‒I bond rather than the vinylic C‒I bond. Upon UV irradiation of (1) and O2 near 21 Torr, anti-trans-MACRO (3a) was observed to have an intense OO-stretching band near 917 cm-1, much greater than those of syn-CH3CHOO and (CH3)2COO, supporting a stronger O‒O bond in MACRO because of resonance stabilization. At increased pressure (86‒346 Torr), both reaction adducts CH2C(CH3)CHIOO (4) and (CHI)C(CH3)CH2OO (5) radicals were observed, indicating that O2 can add to either carbon of the delocalized propenyl radical moiety of (2). The yield of MACRO is significantly smaller than other carbonyl oxides.
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Synthesis of methanediol [CH 2(OH) 2]: The simplest geminal diol. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:2111938119. [PMID: 34969838 PMCID: PMC8740743 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111938119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Methanediol [CH2(OH)2] represents a pivotal atmospheric volatile organic compound and plays a fundamental role in aerosol growth. Although sought for decades, methanediol has never been identified due to the inherent dehydration tendency of two adjacent hydroxyl groups (OH) at the same carbon atom. Here, we prepare and identify methanediol via processing of low-temperature ices followed by sublimation into the gas phase. These findings open up a concept to synthesize and characterize unstable geminal diols—critical organic transients in Earth’s atmosphere. The excited state dynamics of oxygen may also lead to methanediol in methanol-rich interstellar ices in cold molecular clouds, followed by sublimation in star-forming regions and prospective detection of these reactive intermediates in the gas phase by radiotelescopes. Geminal diols—organic molecules carrying two hydroxyl groups at the same carbon atom—have been recognized as key reactive intermediates by the physical (organic) chemistry and atmospheric science communities as fundamental transients in the aerosol cycle and in the atmospheric ozonolysis reaction sequence. Anticipating short lifetimes and their tendency to fragment to water plus the aldehyde or ketone, free geminal diols represent one of the most elusive classes of organic reactive intermediates. Here, we afford an exceptional glance into the preparation of the previously elusive methanediol [CH2(OH)2] transient—the simplest geminal diol—via energetic processing of low-temperature methanol–oxygen ices. Methanediol was identified in the gas phase upon sublimation via isomer-selective photoionization reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometry combined with isotopic substitution studies. Electronic structure calculations reveal that methanediol is formed via excited state dynamics through insertion of electronically excited atomic oxygen into a carbon–hydrogen bond of the methyl group of methanol followed by stabilization in the icy matrix. The first preparation and detection of methanediol demonstrates its gas-phase stability as supported by a significant barrier hindering unimolecular decomposition to formaldehyde and water. These findings advance our perception of the fundamental chemistry and chemical bonding of geminal diols and signify their role as an efficient sink of aldehydes and ketones in atmospheric environments eventually coupling the atmospheric chemistry of geminal diols and Criegee intermediates.
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Mazarei E, Barker JR. CH 2 + O 2: reaction mechanism, biradical and zwitterionic character, and formation of CH 2OO, the simplest Criegee intermediate. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:914-927. [PMID: 34913447 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04372b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The singlet and triplet potential surfaces for the title reaction were investigated using the CBS-QB3 level of theory. The wave functions for some species exhibited multireference character and required the CASPT2/6-31+G(d,p) and CASPT2/aug-cc-pVTZ levels of theory to obtain accurate relative energies. A Natural Bond Orbital Analysis showed that triplet 3CH2OO (the simplest Criegee intermediate) and 3CH2O2 (dioxirane) have mostly polar biradical character, while singlet 1CH2OO has some zwitterionic character and a planar structure. Canonical variational transition state theory (CVTST) and master equation simulations were used to analyze the reaction system. CVTST predicts that the rate constant for reaction of 1CH2 + 3O2 is more than ten times as fast as the reaction of 3CH2 (X3B1) + 3O2 and the ratio remains almost independent of temperature from 900 K to 3000 K. The master equation simulations predict that at low pressures the 1CH2O + 3O product set is dominant at all temperatures and the primary yield of OH radicals is negligible below 600 K, due to competition with other primary reactions in this complex system.
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- Elham Mazarei
- Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
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- Department of Climate and Space Sciences & Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143, USA
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Vereecken L, Novelli A, Kiendler-Scharr A, Wahner A. Unimolecular and water reactions of oxygenated and unsaturated Criegee intermediates under atmospheric conditions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:6428-6443. [DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05877k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ozonolysis of unsaturated hydrocarbons (VOCs) is one of the main oxidation processes in the atmosphere. The stabilized Criegee intermediates (SCI) formed are highly reactive oxygenated species that potentially influence the...
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BHAGDE TRISHA, Hansen AS, Chen SG, Walsh P, Klippenstein SJ, Lester MI. Energy-resolved and time-dependent unimolecular dissociation of hydroperoxyalkyl radicals (•QOOH). Faraday Discuss 2022; 238:575-588. [DOI: 10.1039/d2fd00008c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hydroperoxyalkyl radicals (•QOOH) are transient intermediates in the atmospheric oxidation of volatile organic compounds and combustion of hydrocarbon fuels in low temperature (< 1000 K) environments. The carbon-centered •QOOH radicals...
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Klippenstein SJ. Spiers Memorial Lecture: theory of unimolecular reactions. Faraday Discuss 2022; 238:11-67. [DOI: 10.1039/d2fd00125j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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One hundred years ago, at an earlier Faraday Discussion meeting, Lindemann presented a mechanism that provides the foundation for contemplating the pressure dependence of unimolecular reactions. Since that time, our...
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Marchetti B, Esposito VJ, Bush RE, Karsili TNV. The states that hide in the shadows: the potential role of conical intersections in the ground state unimolecular decay of a Criegee intermediate. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 24:532-540. [PMID: 34904596 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02601a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Criegee intermediates are of great significance to Earth's troposphere - implicated in altering the tropospheric oxidation cycle and in forming low volatility products that typically condense to form secondary organic aerosols (SOAs). As such, their chemistry has attracted vast attention in recent years. In particular, the unimolecular decay of thermal and vibrationally-excited Criegee intermediates has been the focus of several experimental and computational studies, and it is now recognized that Criegee intermediates undergo unimolecular decay to form OH radicals. In this contribution we reveal insight into the chemistry of Criegee intermediates by highlighting the hitherto neglected multi-state contribution to the ground state unimolecular decay dynamics of the Criegee intermediate products. The two key intermediates of present focus are dioxirane and vinylhydroperoxide - known to be active intermediates that mediate the unimolecular decay of CH2OO and CH3CHOO, respectively. In both cases the unimolecular decay path encounters conical intersections, which may play a pivotal role in the ensuing dynamics. This hitherto unrecognized phenomenon may be vital in the way in which the reactivity of Criegee intermediates are modelled and is likely to affect the ensuing dynamics associated with the unimolecular decay of a given Criegee intermediate.
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- University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, LA 70504, USA.
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Wang G, Liu T, Caracciolo A, Vansco MF, Trongsiriwat N, Walsh PJ, Marchetti B, Karsili TNV, Lester MI. Photodissociation dynamics of methyl vinyl ketone oxide: A four-carbon unsaturated Criegee intermediate from isoprene ozonolysis. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:174305. [PMID: 34742186 DOI: 10.1063/5.0068664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The electronic spectrum of methyl vinyl ketone oxide (MVK-oxide), a four-carbon Criegee intermediate derived from isoprene ozonolysis, is examined on its second π* ← π transition, involving primarily the vinyl group, at UV wavelengths (λ) below 300 nm. A broad and unstructured spectrum is obtained by a UV-induced ground state depletion method with photoionization detection on the parent mass (m/z 86). Electronic excitation of MVK-oxide results in dissociation to O (1D) products that are characterized using velocity map imaging. Electronic excitation of MVK-oxide on the first π* ← π transition associated primarily with the carbonyl oxide group at λ > 300 nm results in a prompt dissociation and yields broad total kinetic energy release (TKER) and anisotropic angular distributions for the O (1D) + methyl vinyl ketone products. By contrast, electronic excitation at λ ≤ 300 nm results in bimodal TKER and angular distributions, indicating two distinct dissociation pathways to O (1D) products. One pathway is analogous to that at λ > 300 nm, while the second pathway results in very low TKER and isotropic angular distributions indicative of internal conversion to the ground electronic state and statistical unimolecular dissociation.
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- Guanghan Wang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA
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Ji YT, Lee YP. Dynamics of Reaction CH 3CHI + O 2 Investigated via Infrared Emission of Products CO, CO 2, and OH. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:8373-8385. [PMID: 34524829 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The reaction CH3CHI + O2 has been commonly employed in laboratories to produce a methyl-substituted Criegee intermediate CH3CHOO, but the detailed dynamics of this reaction remain unexplored. We carried out this reaction by irradiating a flowing mixture of CH3CHI2 (∼70 mTorr) and O2 (∼4 and 8 Torr) at 308 or 248 nm and observed infrared emission of the products with a step-scan Fourier-transform spectrometer. Upon irradiation at 248 nm with O2 ∼4 Torr, a Boltzmann distribution of CO (v ≤ 4, J ≤ 25) with average vibrational energy (12 ± 2) kJ mol-1 and of OH (v = 1, J ≤ 5.5) were observed and assigned to be produced from the decomposition of CH3C(O)OH* to form CO + CH3OH and OH + CH3CO, respectively. The observed broadband emission of CO2 was simulated with two vibrational distributions of average energies (42 ± 3) and (114 ± 6) kJ mol-1 and assigned to be produced from the decomposition of CH3C(O)OH* and (methyl dioxirane)*, respectively. The results upon irradiation of the sample at 308 nm are similar, likely indicating a small fraction of energy partition into these products and rapid thermalization of CH3CHI*. Compared with reaction CH2I + O2, the title reaction yielded products with much less internal excitation, consistent with the expectation that these observed products receive much less fraction of available energy upon fragmentation when an additional methyl moiety was present in the parent. The large-v component of CO observed in experiments of CH2I + O2 at 248 nm, produced from secondary reaction HCO + O2, was absent in this work because the corresponding secondary reaction CH3CO + O2 in decomposition of CH3CHOO* produces α-lactone + OH or H2CO + CO + OH.
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- Ya-Tsang Ji
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan.,Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan.,Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 106319, Taiwan
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Hassan Z, Stahlberger M, Rosenbaum N, Bräse S. Criegee‐Intermediate über die Ozonolyse hinaus: Ein Einblick in Synthesen und Mechanismen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202014974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Zahid Hassan
- Institut für Organische Chemie (IOC) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Fritz-Haber-Weg 6 76131 Karlsruhe Deutschland
- 3DMM2O – Exzellenzcluster (EXC-2082/1-390761711) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Karlsruhe Deutschland
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- Institut für Organische Chemie (IOC) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Fritz-Haber-Weg 6 76131 Karlsruhe Deutschland
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- Institut für Organische Chemie (IOC) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Fritz-Haber-Weg 6 76131 Karlsruhe Deutschland
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- Institut für Organische Chemie (IOC) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Fritz-Haber-Weg 6 76131 Karlsruhe Deutschland
- 3DMM2O – Exzellenzcluster (EXC-2082/1-390761711) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Karlsruhe Deutschland
- Institut für Biologische und Chemische Systeme –, Funktionelle molekulare Systeme (IBCS-FMS) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Deutschland
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Hassan Z, Stahlberger M, Rosenbaum N, Bräse S. Criegee Intermediates Beyond Ozonolysis: Synthetic and Mechanistic Insights. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:15138-15152. [PMID: 33283439 PMCID: PMC8359312 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202014974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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After more than 70 years since their discovery, Criegee intermediates (CIs) are back at the forefront of modern chemistry of short-lived reactive intermediates. They play an important role in the mechanistic context of chemical synthesis, total synthesis, pharmaceuticals, and, most importantly, climate-controlling aerosol formation as well as atmospheric chemistry. This Minireview summarizes key aspects of CIs (from the mechanism of formation, for example, by ozonolysis of alkenes and photolysis methods employing diiodo and diazo compounds, to their electronic structures and chemical reactivity), highlights the most recent findings and some landmark results of gas-phase kinetics, and detection/measurements. The recent progress in synthetic and mechanistic studies in the chemistry of CIs provides a guide to illustrate the possibilities for further investigations in this exciting field.
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- Zahid Hassan
- Institute of Organic ChemistryKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyFritz-Haber-Weg 676131KarlsruheGermany
- 3DMM2O—Cluster of Excellence (EXC-2082/1–390761711)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)76131KarlsruheGermany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyFritz-Haber-Weg 676131KarlsruheGermany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyFritz-Haber-Weg 676131KarlsruheGermany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyFritz-Haber-Weg 676131KarlsruheGermany
- 3DMM2O—Cluster of Excellence (EXC-2082/1–390761711)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)76131KarlsruheGermany
- Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems (IBCS-FMS)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 176344Eggenstein-LeopoldshafenGermany
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Chen M, Tong S, Wang Z, Li W, Xu Y, Wang S, Ge M. Reaction mechanism and kinetics of Criegee intermediate and hydroperoxymethyl formate. J Environ Sci (China) 2021; 105:128-137. [PMID: 34130830 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2020.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Revised: 12/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The reaction mechanism and kinetics of the simplest Criegee intermediate CH2OO reaction with hydroperoxymethyl formate (HPMF) was investigated at high-level quantum chemistry calculations. HPMF has two reactive functional groups, -C(O)OH and -OOH. The calculated results of thermodynamic data and rate constants indicated that the insertion reactions of CH2OO with -OOH group of HPMF were more favorable than the reactions of CH2OO with -C(O)OH group. The calculated overall rate constant was 2.33 × 10-13 cm3/(molecule⋅sec) at 298 K and the rate constants decreased as the temperature increased from 200 to 480 K. In addition, we also proved the polymerization reaction mechanism between CH2OO and -OOH of HPMF. This theoretical study interpreted the previous experimental results, and supplied the structures of the intermediate products that couldn't be detected during the experiment.
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- Meifang Chen
- College of Chemistry and Material Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China; State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Center for Excellence in Regional Atmos. Environ., Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Center for Excellence in Regional Atmos. Environ., Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- College of Chemistry and Material Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China
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- College of Chemistry and Material Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Center for Excellence in Regional Atmos. Environ., Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Zhou X, Chen Y, Liu Y, Li X, Dong W, Yang X. Kinetics of CH 2OO and syn-CH 3CHOO reaction with acrolein. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:13276-13283. [PMID: 34095924 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00492a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The kinetics for the reactions of CH2OO and syn-CH3CHOO with acrolein, a typical unsaturated aldehyde in the atmosphere, were studied in a flash photolysis flow reactor using the OH laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) method. The bimolecular reaction rate coefficients were measured at temperatures ranging from 281 to 318 K, and pressures ranging from 5 to 200 Torr. No obvious dependence of the rate coefficients on pressure was observed under the current experimental conditions. Both reactions exhibit negative temperature-dependence, with an activation energy of (-1.70 ± 0.19) and (-1.47 ± 0.24) kcal mol-1 for CH2OO and syn-CH3CHOO reacting with acrolein, derived from the Arrhenius equation. At 298 K, the measured rate coefficients for CH2OO/syn-CH3CHOO + acrolein reactions are (1.63 ± 0.19) × 10-12 cm3 s-1 and (1.17 ± 0.16) × 10-13 cm3 s-1, respectively. The rate coefficient of the former reaction is in reasonable agreement with a recent theoretical result.
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- Xiaohu Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China. and Zhang Dayu School of Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. and Key Laboratory of Chemical Lasers, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. and Key Laboratory of Materials Modification by Laser, Ion and Electron Beams (Ministry of Education), School of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. and Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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The fates of organic hydroperoxides (ROOHs) in atmospheric condensed phases are key to understanding the oxidative and toxicological potentials of particulate matter. Recently, mass spectrometric detection of ROOHs as chloride anion adducts has revealed that liquid-phase α-hydroxyalkyl hydroperoxides, derived from hydration of carbonyl oxides (Criegee intermediates), decompose to geminal diols and H2O2 over a time frame that is sensitively dependent on the water content, pH, and temperature of the reaction solution. Based on these findings, it has been proposed that H+-catalyzed conversion of ROOHs to ROHs + H2O2 is a key process for the decomposition of ROOHs that bypasses radical formation. In this perspective, we discuss our current understanding of the aqueous-phase decomposition of atmospherically relevant ROOHs, including ROOHs derived from reaction between Criegee intermediates and alcohols or carboxylic acids, and of highly oxygenated molecules (HOMs). Implications and future challenges are also discussed.
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- Shinichi Enami
- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8506, Japan
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Saheb V. Detailed theoretical kinetics studies on the product formation from the reaction of the criegee intermediate CH2OO with H2O molecule. Theor Chem Acc 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-021-02779-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Long B, Wang Y, Xia Y, He X, Bao JL, Truhlar DG. Atmospheric Kinetics: Bimolecular Reactions of Carbonyl Oxide by a Triple-Level Strategy. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:8402-8413. [PMID: 34029069 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c02029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Criegee intermediates in the atmosphere serve as oxidizing agents to initiate aerosol formation, which are particularly important for atmospheric modeling, and understanding their kinetics is one of the current outstanding challenges in climate change modeling. Because experimental kinetics are still limited, we must rely on theory for the complete picture, but obtaining absolute rates from theory is a formidable task. Here, we report the bimolecular reaction kinetics of carbonyl oxide with ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, formaldehyde, and water dimer by designing a triple-level strategy that combines (i) benchmark results close to the complete-basis limit of coupled-cluster theory with the single, double, triple, and quadruple excitations (CCSDTQ/CBS), (ii) a new hybrid meta density functional (M06CR) specifically optimized for reactions of Criegee intermediates, and (iii) variational transition-state theory with both variable rection coordinates and optimized reaction paths, with multidimensional tunneling, and with pressure effects. For (i) we have found that quadruple excitations are required to obtain quantitative reaction barriers, and we designed new composite methods and strategies to reach CCSDTQ/CBS accuracy. The present findings show that (i) the CH2OO + HCHO reaction can make an important contribution to the sink of HCHO under wide atmospheric conditions in the gas phase and that (ii) CH2OO + (H2O)2 dominates over the CH2OO + H2O reaction below 10 km.
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- Bo Long
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China.,Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.,The National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Animal Peptide Drug Development, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410006, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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McCoy JC, Marchetti B, Thodika M, Karsili TNV. A Simple and Efficient Method for Simulating the Electronic Absorption Spectra of Criegee Intermediates: Benchmarking on CH 2OO and CH 3CHOO. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:4089-4097. [PMID: 33970629 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c01074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Criegee intermediates (CIs) play a vital role in the atmosphere-known most prominently for enhancing the oxidizing capacity of the troposphere. Knowledge of their electronic absorption spectra is of vital importance for two reasons: (1) to aid experimentalists in detecting CIs and (2) in deciding if their removal is affected by solar photolysis. In this article we report a simple and efficient method based on the nuclear ensemble method that may be effectively used to compute the electronic absorption spectra of Criegee intermediates without the need for extensive computation of preparing the initial configurations of the starting geometry. We use this method to benchmark several excited-state electronic structure methods and their efficacy in reproducing the electronic absorption spectra of two well-known cases of CI: CH2OO and CH3CHOO. The success and computational feasibility of the methodology are crucial for its applicability to CIs of increasing molecular complexity, which have no known experimentally measured electronic absorption spectra, allowing a guide for experimentalists. Application of the methodology to more complex CIs (e.g., those with extended conjugation or those derived from endocyclic alkenes) will also reveal if solar photolysis becomes a competitive removal process when compared to unimolecular decay or bimolecular chemistry.
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- Julia C McCoy
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70503, United States
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- University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70503, United States
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70503, United States
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Auerbach DJ, Tully JC, Wodtke AM. Chemical dynamics from the gas‐phase to surfaces. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ntls.10005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Daniel J. Auerbach
- Institut für physikalische Chemie Georg‐August Universität Göttingen Göttingen Germany
- Abteilung für Dynamik an Oberflächen Max‐Planck‐Institut für biophysikalische Chemie Göttingen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
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- Institut für physikalische Chemie Georg‐August Universität Göttingen Göttingen Germany
- Abteilung für Dynamik an Oberflächen Max‐Planck‐Institut für biophysikalische Chemie Göttingen Germany
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Kumar A, Kumar P. The effect of ammonia and formic acid on the oxidation of CO via a simple Criegee intermediate. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:5392-5406. [PMID: 33645593 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp05270a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In the present work, we have investigated the effect of catalysts (ammonia, formic acid, ammonia dimer, and ammonia water complex) on the oxidation of CO via a simple Criegee intermediate by means of kinetics and quantum chemical calculations. Our finding suggests that, in the presence of ammonia and ammonia dimer the title reaction becomes a barrierless reaction with respect to the isolated reactants (energy barrier = ∼-0.53 and ∼-0.27 kcal mol-1, respectively), whereas in the presence of formic acid and ammonia-water complex the energy barrier of the CI + CO reaction becomes ∼2.84 and ∼0.82 kcal mol-1, respectively. However, among all the catalysts, due to the very low concentration of the ammonia dimer, its contribution towards the title reaction is insignificant as compared to that of the other catalysts. In addition, the relative rate of the other catalyzed channels against the uncatalyzed reaction suggests that the rate of the catalyzed CI + CO reaction is ∼8-10 orders of magnitude lower than the uncatalyzed reaction. However, the concentration of bimolecular complexes formed in the presence of catalysts (except the ammonia dimer) is ∼1-8 orders of magnitude higher than the concentration of bimolecular complexes formed in the uncatalyzed reaction.
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- Amit Kumar
- Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, 302017, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, 302017, India.
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Sajadi GS, Saheb V, Hosseini SMA. The reaction of dimethyl sulfide with the Criegee intermediates CH2OO and (CH3)2COO: Theoretical investigations. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2021.113145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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