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Flores J, Ruscitti M, Khani S, Reilly NJ. Electronic Spectrum of α-Hydrofulvenyl Radical (C 6H 7), and a Simple and Accurate Recipe for Predicting Adiabatic Ionization Energies of Resonance-Stabilized Hydrocarbon Radicals. J Phys Chem A 2024. [PMID: 39264134 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c04746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/13/2024]
Abstract
Using a combination of resonant two-photon two-color ionization (R2C2PI) and laser-induced fluorescence/dispersed fluorescence spectroscopy, we have examined the A ~ 2A″ ← X ~ 2A″ transition of the resonance-stabilized α-hydrofulvenyl radical, produced from methylcyclopentadiene dimer in a jet-cooled discharge. Like the related 1,4-pentadienyl and cyclohexadienyl radicals, the α-hydrofulvenyl Ã-state lifetime is orders of magnitude shorter than the predicted f-value implies, indicative of rapid nonradiative decay. The transition is fully allowed by symmetry but considerably weakened by transition moment interference. Intensity borrowing among a' modes brings about static (i.e., Condon) and vibronic (i.e., Herzberg-Teller) moments of similar size, the result being a spectrum substantially less origin-dominated than is usually observed for extensively delocalized radicals. Twenty A ~ -state modes and twelve X ~ -state modes are identified with high confidence and assignments for several others are suggested. In addition, from a series of two-color appearance potential scans with the A ~ -state zero-point level serving as an intermediate, we obtain a field-free adiabatic ionization energy (AIE) of 7.012(1) eV. For a set of 21 resonance-stabilized radicals bearing 5 to 11 carbon atoms, it emerges that the field-free AIE obtained by R2C2PI methods under jet-cooled conditions lies very close to the average of B3LYP/6-311G++(d,p) (with harmonic zero-point energy) and CBS-QB3 0 K calculations, with a mean absolute deviation of only 0.010(7) eV (approximately 1 kJ/mol). On average, this represents a nearly 10-fold improvement in accuracy over CBS-QB3 predictions for the same set of radicals.
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- Jonathan Flores
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, United States
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Hrodmarsson HR, Garcia GA, Bourehil L, Nahon L, Gans B, Boyé-Péronne S, Guillemin JC, Loison JC. The isomer distribution of C 6H 6 products from the propargyl radical gas-phase recombination investigated by threshold-photoelectron spectroscopy. Commun Chem 2024; 7:156. [PMID: 38997498 PMCID: PMC11245511 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-024-01239-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2024] [Accepted: 07/02/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024] Open
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The resonance-stabilization of the propargyl radical (C3H3) makes it among the most important reactive intermediates in extreme environments and grants it a long enough lifetime to recombine in both terrestrial combustion media and cold molecular clouds in space. This makes the propargyl self-reaction a pivotal step in the formation of benzene, the first aromatic ring, to eventually lead to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a variety of environments. In this work, by producing propargyl radicals in a flow tube where propyne reacted with F atoms and probing the reaction products by mass-selected threshold-photoelectron spectroscopy (TPES), we identified eight C6H6 products in total, including benzene. On top of providing the first comprehensive measurements of the branching ratios of the eight identified C6H6 isomers in the propargyl self reaction products (4 mbar, 298 K conditions), this study also highlights the advantages and disadvantages of using isomer-selective TPES to identify and quantify reaction products.
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- Helgi Rafn Hrodmarsson
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, St. Aubin, F-91192, Gif sur Yvette, France.
- Univ Paris Est Créteil and Université Paris Cité, CNRS, LISA UMR 7583, 94010, Créteil, France.
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, St. Aubin, F-91192, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, St. Aubin, F-91192, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, St. Aubin, F-91192, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, F-91405, Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, F-91405, Orsay, France
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- Univ Rennes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, CNRS, ISCR - UMR6226, F-35000, Rennes, France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, F-33400, Talence, France.
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He C, Kaiser RI, Lu W, Ahmed M, Krasnoukhov VS, Pivovarov PS, Zagidullin MV, Azyazov VN, Morozov AN, Mebel AM. Unconventional gas-phase preparation of the prototype polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon naphthalene (C 10H 8) via the reaction of benzyl (C 7H 7) and propargyl (C 3H 3) radicals coupled with hydrogen-atom assisted isomerization. Chem Sci 2023; 14:5369-5378. [PMID: 37234886 PMCID: PMC10208037 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc00911d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium and in meteorites such as Murchison and Allende and signify the missing link between resonantly stabilized free radicals and carbonaceous nanoparticles (soot particles, interstellar grains). However, the predicted lifetime of interstellar PAHs of some 108 years imply that PAHs should not exist in extraterrestrial environments suggesting that key mechanisms of their formation are elusive. Exploiting a microchemical reactor and coupling these data with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and kinetic modeling, we reveal through an isomer selective product detection that the reaction of the resonantly stabilized benzyl and the propargyl radicals synthesizes the simplest representative of PAHs - the 10π Hückel aromatic naphthalene (C10H8) molecule - via the novel Propargyl Addition-BenzAnnulation (PABA) mechanism. The gas-phase preparation of naphthalene affords a versatile concept of the reaction of combustion and astronomically abundant propargyl radicals with aromatic radicals carrying the radical center at the methylene moiety as a previously passed over source of aromatics in high temperature environments thus bringing us closer to an understanding of the aromatic universe we live in.
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- Chao He
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Honolulu HI 96822 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Honolulu HI 96822 USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720 USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720 USA
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- Lebedev Physical Institute Samara 443011 Russian Federation
- Samara National Research University Samara 443086 Russian Federation
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- Samara National Research University Samara 443086 Russian Federation
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University Miami Florida 33199 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University Miami Florida 33199 USA
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Pham TV, Trang HTT. Reactions of Methyl Radicals with Aniline Acting as Hydrogen Donors and as Methyl Radical Acceptors. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:17005-17016. [PMID: 37214701 PMCID: PMC10193547 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c01029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The present investigation theoretically reports the comprehensive kinetic mechanism of the reaction between aniline and the methyl radical over a wide range of temperatures (300-2000 K) and pressures (76-76,000 Torr). The potential energy surface of the C6H5NH2 + CH3 reaction has been established at the CCSD(T)//M06-2X/6-311++G(3df,2p) level of theory. The conventional transition-state theory (TST) was utilized to calculate rate constants for the elementary reaction channels, while the stochastic RRKM-based master equation framework was applied for the T- and P-dependent rate-coefficient calculation of multiwell reaction paths. Hindered internal rotation and Eckart tunneling treatments were included. The H-abstraction from the -NH2 group of aniline (to form P1 (C6H5NH + CH4)) has been found to compete with the CH3-addition on the C atom at the ortho site of aniline (to form IS2) with the atmospheric rate expressions (in cm3 molecule-1 s-1) as ka1 = 7.5 × 10-23 T3.04 exp[(-40.63 ± 0.29 kJ·mol-1)/RT] and kb2 = 2.29 × 10-3 T-3.19 exp[(-56.94 ± 1.17 kJ·mol-1)/RT] for T = 300-2000 K and P = 760 Torr. Even though rate constants of several reaction channels decrease with increasing pressures, the total rate constant ktotal = 7.71 × 10-17 T1.20 exp[(-40.96 ± 2.18 kJ·mol-1)/RT] of the title reaction still increases as the pressure increases in the range of 76-76,000 Torr. The calculated enthalpy changes for some species are in good agreement with the available experimental data within their uncertainties (the maximum deviation between theory and experiment is ∼11 kJ·mol-1). The T1 diagnostic and spin contamination analysis for all species involved have also been observed. This work provides sound quality rate coefficients for the title reaction, which will be valuable for the development of detailed combustion reaction mechanisms for hydrocarbon fuels.
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- Tien V. Pham
- School
of Chemical Engineering, Hanoi University
of Science and Technology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- Department
of Chemistry, Hanoi Architectural University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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Zádor J, Martí C, Van de Vijver R, Johansen SL, Yang Y, Michelsen HA, Najm HN. Automated Reaction Kinetics of Gas-Phase Organic Species over Multiwell Potential Energy Surfaces. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:565-588. [PMID: 36607817 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Automation of rate-coefficient calculations for gas-phase organic species became possible in recent years and has transformed how we explore these complicated systems computationally. Kinetics workflow tools bring rigor and speed and eliminate a large fraction of manual labor and related error sources. In this paper we give an overview of this quickly evolving field and illustrate, through five detailed examples, the capabilities of our own automated tool, KinBot. We bring examples from combustion and atmospheric chemistry of C-, H-, O-, and N-atom-containing species that are relevant to molecular weight growth and autoxidation processes. The examples shed light on the capabilities of automation and also highlight particular challenges associated with the various chemical systems that need to be addressed in future work.
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- Judit Zádor
- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder80309, Colorado, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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Galimova GR, Mebel AM, Goettl SJ, Yang Z, Kaiser RI. A crossed molecular beams and computational study on the unusual reactivity of banana bonds of cyclopropane (c-C 3H 6; ) through insertion by ground state carbon atoms (C( 3P j)). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:22453-22463. [PMID: 36102937 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03293g] [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 mechanism and chemical dynamics of the reaction of ground electronic state atomic carbon C(3Pj) with cyclopropane c-C3H6 have been explored by combining crossed molecular beams experiments with electronic structure calculations of the pertinent triplet C4H6 potential energy surface and statistical computations of product branching ratios under single-collision conditions. The experimental findings suggest that the reaction proceeds via indirect scattering dynamics through triplet C4H6 reaction intermediate(s) leading to C4H5 product(s) plus atomic hydrogen via a tight exit transition state, with the overall reaction exoergicity evaluated as 231 ± 52 kJ mol-1. The calculations indicate that C(3Pj) can easily insert into one of the three equivalent C-C 'banana' bonds of cyclopropane overcoming a low barrier of only 2 kJ mol-1 following the formation of a van der Waals reactant complex stabilized by 15 kJ mol-1. The carbon atom insertion into one of the six C-H bonds is also feasible via a slightly higher barrier of 5 kJ mol-1. These results highlight an unusual reactivity of cyclopropane's banana C-C bonds, which behave more like unsaturated C-C bonds with a π-character than saturated σ C-C bonds, which are known to be generally unreactive toward the ground electronic state atomic carbon such as in ethane (C2H6). The statistical theory predicts the overall product branching ratios at the experimental collision energy as 50% for 1-butyn-4-yl, 33% for 1,3-butadien-2-yl, i-C4H5, and 11% for 1,3-butadien-1-yl, n-C4H5, with i-C4H5 (230 kJ mol-1 below the reactants) favored by the C-C insertion providing the best match with the experimentally observed reaction exoergicity. The C(3Pj) + c-C3H6 reaction is predicted to be a source of C4H5 radicals under the conditions where its low entrance barriers can be overcome, such as in planetary atmospheres or in circumstellar envelopes but not in cold molecular clouds. Both i- and n-C4H5 can further react with acetylene eventually producing the first aromatic ring and hence, the reaction of the atomic carbon with c-C3H6 can be considered as an initial step toward the formation of benzene.
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- Galiya R Galimova
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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Kleimeier NF, Liu Y, Turner AM, Young LA, Chin CH, Yang T, He X, Lo JI, Cheng BM, Kaiser RI. Excited state photochemically driven surface formation of benzene from acetylene ices on Pluto and in the outer solar system. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:1424-1436. [PMID: 34982080 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04959c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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NASA's New Horizons mission unveiled a diverse landscape of Pluto's surface with massive regions being neutral in color, while others like Cthulhu Macula range from golden-yellow to reddish comprising up to half of Pluto's carbon budget. Here, we demonstrate in laboratory experiments merged with electronic structure calculations that the photolysis of solid acetylene - the most abundant precipitate on Pluto's surface - by low energy ultraviolet photons efficiently synthesizes benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via excited state photochemistry thus providing critical molecular building blocks for the colored surface material. Since low energy photons deliver doses to Pluto's surface exceeding those from cosmic rays by six orders of magnitude, these processes may significantly contribute to the coloration of Pluto's surface and of hydrocarbon-covered surfaces of Solar System bodies such as Triton in general. This discovery critically enhances our perception of the distribution of aromatic molecules and carbon throughout our Solar System.
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- N Fabian Kleimeier
- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China.
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- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, Department of Space Studies, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China. .,Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China. .,New York University - East China Normal University Center for Computational Chemistry, New York University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China.
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- Department of Medical Research, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien City 970, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Research, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien City 970, Taiwan.,Tzu-Chi University of Science and Technology, Hualien City 970, Taiwan
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- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Nguyen TL, Bross DH, Ruscic B, Ellison GB, Stanton J. Mechanism, Thermochemistry, and Kinetics of the Reversible Reactions: C2H3 + H2 ⇌ C2H4 + H ⇌ C2H5. Faraday Discuss 2022; 238:405-430. [DOI: 10.1039/d1fd00124h] [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 coupled cluster theory, in conjunction with Active Thermochemical Tables (ATcT) and E,J-resolved master equation calculations were used in a study of the title reactions, which play an important role...
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Green WH. Concluding Remarks on Faraday Discussion on Unimolecular Reactions. Faraday Discuss 2022; 238:741-766. [DOI: 10.1039/d2fd00136e] [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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This Faraday Discussion, marking the centenary of Lindemann’s explanation of the pressure-dependence of unimolecular reactions, presented recent advances in measuring and computing collisional energy transfer efficiencies, microcanonical rate coefficients, pressure-dependent...
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Caster KL, Selby TM, Osborn DL, Le Picard SD, Goulay F. Product Detection of the CH(X 2Π) Radical Reaction with Cyclopentadiene: A Novel Route to Benzene. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:6927-6939. [PMID: 34374546 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c03517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The reaction of the methylidyne radical (CH(X2Π)) with cyclopentadiene (c-C5H6) is studied in the gas phase at 4 Torr and 373 K using a multiplexed photoionization mass spectrometer. Under multiple collision conditions, the dominant product channel observed is the formation of C6H6 + H. Fitting the photoionization spectrum using reference spectra allows for isomeric resolution of C6H6 isomers, where benzene is the largest contributor with a relative branching fraction of 90 (±5)%. Several other C6H6 isomers are found to have smaller contributions, including fulvene with a branching fraction of 8 (±5)%. Master Equation calculations for four different entrance channels on the C6H7 potential energy surface are performed to explore the competition between CH cycloaddition to a C═C bond vs CH insertion into C-H bonds of cyclopentadiene. Previous studies on CH addition to unsaturated hydrocarbons show little evidence for the C-H insertion pathway. The present computed branching fractions support benzene as the sole cyclic product from CH cycloaddition, whereas fulvene is the dominant product from two of the three pathways for CH insertion into the C-H bonds of cyclopentadiene. The combination of experiment with Master Equation calculations implies that insertion must account for ∼10 (±5)% of the overall CH + cyclopentadiene mechanism.
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- Kacee L Caster
- C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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- Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, West Bend, Wisconsin 53095, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Mail Stop 9055, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes), UMR 6251, Univ Rennes, CNRS, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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Zhao L, Lu W, Ahmed M, Zagidullin MV, Azyazov VN, Morozov AN, Mebel AM, Kaiser RI. Gas-phase synthesis of benzene via the propargyl radical self-reaction. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:7/21/eabf0360. [PMID: 34020951 PMCID: PMC8139581 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf0360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been invoked in fundamental molecular mass growth processes in our galaxy. We provide compelling evidence of the formation of the very first ringed aromatic and building block of PAHs-benzene-via the self-recombination of two resonantly stabilized propargyl (C3H3) radicals in dilute environments using isomer-selective synchrotron-based mass spectrometry coupled to theoretical calculations. Along with benzene, three other structural isomers (1,5-hexadiyne, fulvene, and 2-ethynyl-1,3-butadiene) and o-benzyne are detected, and their branching ratios are quantified experimentally and verified with the aid of computational fluid dynamics and kinetic simulations. These results uncover molecular growth pathways not only in interstellar, circumstellar, and solar systems environments but also in combustion systems, which help us gain a better understanding of the hydrocarbon chemistry of our universe.
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- Long Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Samara 443011, Russian Federation
- Samara National Research University, Samara 443086, Russian Federation
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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Agúndez M, Cabezas C, Tercero B, Marcelino N, Gallego JD, de Vicente P, Cernicharo J. Discovery of the propargyl radical (CH 2CCH) in TMC-1: one of the most abundant radicals ever found and a key species for cyclization to benzene in cold dark clouds. ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS 2021; 647:L10. [PMID: 33850331 PMCID: PMC7610583 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We present the first identification in interstellar space of the propargyl radical (CH2CCH). This species was observed in the cold dark cloud TMC-1 using the Yebes 40m telescope. The six strongest hyperfine components of the 20,2-10,1 rotational transition, lying at 37.46 GHz, were detected with signal-to-noise ratios in the range 4.6-12.3 σ. We derive a column density of 8.7 × 1013 cm-2 for CH2CCH, which translates to a fractional abundance relative to H2 of 8.7 × 10-9. This radical has a similar abundance to methyl acetylene, with an abundance ratio CH2CCH/CH3CCH close to one. The propargyl radical is thus one of the most abundant radicals detected in TMC-1, and it is probably the most abundant organic radical with a certain chemical complexity ever found in a cold dark cloud. We constructed a gas-phase chemical model and find calculated abundances that agree with, or fall two orders of magnitude below, the observed value depending on the poorly constrained low-temperature reactivity of CH2CCH with neutral atoms. According to the chemical model, the propargyl radical is essentially formed by the C + C2H4 reaction and by the dissociative recombination of C3Hn + ions with n = 4-6. The propargyl radical is believed to control the synthesis of the first aromatic ring in combustion processes, and it probably plays a key role in the synthesis of large organic molecules and cyclization processes to benzene in cold dark clouds.
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- M. Agúndez
- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, Calle Serrano 123, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, Calle Serrano 123, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, IGN, Calle Alfonso XII 3, E-28014 Madrid, Spain
- Observatorio de Yebes, IGN, Cerro de la Palera s/n, E-19141 Yebes, Guadalajara, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, Calle Serrano 123, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Observatorio de Yebes, IGN, Cerro de la Palera s/n, E-19141 Yebes, Guadalajara, Spain
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- Observatorio de Yebes, IGN, Cerro de la Palera s/n, E-19141 Yebes, Guadalajara, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, Calle Serrano 123, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
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Smith MC, Liu G, Buras ZJ, Chu TC, Yang J, Green WH. Direct Measurement of Radical-Catalyzed C 6H 6 Formation from Acetylene and Validation of Theoretical Rate Coefficients for C 2H 3 + C 2H 2 and C 4H 5 + C 2H 2 Reactions. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:2871-2884. [PMID: 32164407 PMCID: PMC7309326 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c00558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The
addition of vinylic radicals to acetylene is an important step
contributing to the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
in combustion. The overall reaction 3C2H2 →
C6H6 could result in large benzene yields, but
without accurate rate parameters validated by experiment, the extent
of aromatic ring formation from this pathway is uncertain. The addition
of vinyl radicals to acetylene was investigated using time-resolved
photoionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry at 500 and 700 K
and 5–50 Torr. The formation of C6H6 was
observed at all conditions, attributed to sequential addition to acetylene
followed by cyclization. Vinylacetylene (C4H4) was observed with increasing yield from 500 to 700 K, attributed
to the β-scission of the thermalized 1,3-butadien-1-yl radical
and the chemically activated reaction C2H3 +
C2H2 → C4H4 + H.
The measured kinetics and product distributions are consistent with
a kinetic model constructed using pressure- and temperature-dependent
reaction rate coefficients computed from previously reported ab initio calculations. The experiments provide direct measurements
of the hypothesized C4H5 intermediates and validate
predictions of pressure-dependent addition reactions of vinylic radicals
to C2H2, which are thought to play a key role
in soot formation.
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- Mica C Smith
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 01239, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 01239, United States.,Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of the Ministry of Education, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 01239, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 01239, United States
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 01239, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 01239, United States
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Pham TV, Trang HTT, Huyen TL, Nguyen TN. Theoretical Study of the Kinetics of the Gas-Phase Reaction between Phenyl and Amino Radicals. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:1277-1286. [PMID: 31984286 PMCID: PMC6977206 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b03967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 12/27/2019] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
Abstract
The potential energy surface (PES) of the C6H5 + NH2 reaction has been investigated by using ab initio CCSD(T)//B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,2p) calculations. The conventional transition-state theory (TST) and the variable reaction coordinate-TST (VRC-TST) have been used to predict the rate constants for the channels possessing tight and barrierless transition states, respectively. The Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus/Master equation (RRKM/ME) theory has been utilized to determine the pressure-dependent rate constants for these reactions. The PES shows that the reaction begins with an exothermic barrierless addition of NH2 to C6H5 producing the vital intermediate state, namely, aniline (C6H5NH2, IS1). Once IS1 is generated, it can further isomerize to various intermediate states, which can give rise to different products, including PR4 (4,5,6-trihydro-1-amino phenyl + H2), PR5 (3,4,5,6-tetrahydro phenyl + NH3), PR6 (2,3,5,6-tetrahydro-1-imidogen phenyl + H2), PR9 (3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-1-imidogen phenyl + H2), and PR10 (2,5,6-trihydro-1-amino phenyl + H2), of which the most stable product, PR5, was formed by the most favorable channel going through the two advantageous transition states T1/11 (-28.9 kcal/mol) and T11P5 (-21.5 kcal/mol). The calculated rate constants for the low-energy channel, 1.37 × 10-9 and 2.16 × 10-11 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 at T = 300, P = 1 Torr and T = 2000 K, P = 760 Torr, respectively, show that the title reaction is almost pressure- and temperature-dependent. The negative temperature-dependent rate coefficients can be expressed in the modified Arrhenius form of k 1 = 8.54 × 1013 T -7.20 exp (-7.07 kcal·mol-1/RT) and k 2 = 2.42 × 1015 T -7.61 exp (-7.75 kcal·mol-1/RT) at 1 and 10 Torr, respectively, and in the temperature range of 300-2000 K. The forward and reverse rate coefficients as well as the high-pressure equilibrium constants of the C6H5 + NH2 ↔ IS1 process were also predicted; their values revealed that its kinetics do not depend on pressure at low temperature but strongly depend on pressure at high temperature. Moreover, the predicted formation enthalpies of reactants and the enthalpy changes of some channels are in good agreement with the experimental results.
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- Tien V. Pham
- School
of Chemical Engineering, Hanoi University
of Science and Technology, Hanoi City, Vietnam
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- Department
of Chemistry, Hanoi Architectural University, Hanoi City, 100000, Vietnam
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- Department
of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung
University, Hsinchu, 30010, Taiwan
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- School
of Chemical Engineering, Hanoi University
of Science and Technology, Hanoi City, Vietnam
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Theoretical Investigation on Mechanism, Thermochemistry, and Kinetics of the Gas-phase Reaction of 2-Propargyl Radical with Formaldehyde. Chem Res Chin Univ 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s40242-019-9054-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Krechkivska O, Wilcox CM, Nauta K, Kable SH, Schmidt TW. Quantum-Induced Symmetry Breaking in the Deuterated Dihydroanthracenyl Radical. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:6711-6719. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Olha Krechkivska
- School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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Numerical methods. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-64207-3.00006-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Ghaderi N. Bimolecular Master Equations for a Single and Multiple Potential Wells with Analytic Solutions. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:3506-3534. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b09244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Nima Ghaderi
- Department of Physics, Beckman Institute, and Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Sztáray B, Voronova K, Torma KG, Covert KJ, Bodi A, Hemberger P, Gerber T, Osborn DL. CRF-PEPICO: Double velocity map imaging photoelectron photoion coincidence spectroscopy for reaction kinetics studies. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:013944. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4984304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Bálint Sztáray
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California 95211, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California 95211, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California 95211, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California 95211, USA
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- Laboratory for Femtochemistry and Synchrotron Radiation, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Femtochemistry and Synchrotron Radiation, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Femtochemistry and Synchrotron Radiation, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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Es-Sebbar ET, Khaled F, Elwardany A, Farooq A. Rate Coefficients of the Reaction of OH with Allene and Propyne at High Temperatures. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:7998-8005. [PMID: 27676243 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b04387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Allene (H2C═C═CH2; a-C3H4) and propyne (CH3C≡CH; p-C3H4) are important species in various chemical environments. In combustion processes, the reactions of hydroxyl radicals with a-C3H4 and p-C3H4 are critical in the overall fuel oxidation system. In this work, rate coefficients of OH radicals with allene (OH + H2C═C═CH2 → products) and propyne (OH + CH3C≡CH → products) were measured behind reflected shock waves over the temperature range of 843-1352 K and pressures near 1.5 atm. Hydroxyl radicals were generated by rapid thermal decomposition of tert-butyl hydroperoxide ((CH3)3-CO-OH), and monitored by narrow line width laser absorption of the well-characterized R1(5) electronic transition of the OH A-X (0,0) electronic system near 306.7 nm. Results show that allene reacts faster with OH radicals than propyne over the temperature range of this study. Measured rate coefficients can be expressed in Arrhenius form as follows: kallene+OH(T) = 8.51(±0.03) × 10-22T3.05 exp(2215(±3)/T), T = 843-1352 K; kpropyne+OH(T) = 1.30(±0.07) × 10-21T3.01 exp(1140(±6)/T), T = 846-1335 K.
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- Et-Touhami Es-Sebbar
- Clean Combustion Research Centre, Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.,Laboratory for Thermal Processes & Combustion, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Clean Combustion Research Centre, Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Clean Combustion Research Centre, Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.,Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University , Alexandria 21544, Egypt
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- Clean Combustion Research Centre, Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Ghaderi N. Bimolecular recombination reactions: K-adiabatic and K-active forms of the bimolecular master equations and analytic solutions. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:124114. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4944082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Nima Ghaderi
- Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Hemberger P, da Silva G, Trevitt AJ, Gerber T, Bodi A. Are the three hydroxyphenyl radical isomers created equal?--The role of the phenoxy radical. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:30076-83. [PMID: 26500055 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp05346c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
We have investigated the thermal decomposition of the three hydroxyphenyl radicals (˙C6H4OH) in a heated microtubular reactor. Intermediates and products were identified isomer-selectively applying photoion mass-selected threshold photoelectron spectroscopy with vacuum ultraviolet synchrotron radiation. Similarly to the phenoxy radical (C6H5-O˙), hydroxyphenyl decomposition yields cyclopentadienyl (c-C5H5) radicals in a decarbonylation reaction at elevated temperatures. This finding suggests that all hydroxyphenyl isomers first rearrange to form phenoxy species, which subsequently decarbonylate, a mechanism which we also investigate computationally. Meta- and para-radicals were selectively produced and spectroscopically detectable, whereas the ortho isomer could not be traced due to its fast rethermalization and rapid decomposition in the reactor. A smaller barrier to isomerization to phenoxy was found to be the reason for this observation. Since hydroxyphenyl species may be present under typical sooting conditions in flames, the resonantly stabilized cyclopentadienyl radical adds to the hydrocarbon pool and can contribute to the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are precursors in soot formation.
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- P Hemberger
- Molecular Dynamics Group, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
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Tan T, Yang X, Ju Y, Carter EA. Ab Initio Reaction Kinetics of CH3OĊ(═O) and ĊH2OC(═O)H Radicals. J Phys Chem B 2015; 120:1590-600. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b07959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ting Tan
- Department
of Chemistry, ‡Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, §Program in Applied
and Computational Mathematics, and ∥Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, ‡Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, §Program in Applied
and Computational Mathematics, and ∥Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, ‡Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, §Program in Applied
and Computational Mathematics, and ∥Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, ‡Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, §Program in Applied
and Computational Mathematics, and ∥Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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Mebel AM, Kaiser RI. Formation of resonantly stabilised free radicals via the reactions of atomic carbon, dicarbon, and tricarbon with unsaturated hydrocarbons: theory and crossed molecular beams experiments. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/0144235x.2015.1075280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Alexander M. Mebel
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Tan T, Yang X, Ju Y, Carter EA. Ab Initio Unimolecular Reaction Kinetics of CH2C(═O)OCH3 and CH3C(═O)OCH2 Radicals. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:10553-62. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ting Tan
- Department
of Chemistry, ‡Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, §Program in Applied and Computational
Mathematics, and ∥Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, ‡Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, §Program in Applied and Computational
Mathematics, and ∥Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, ‡Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, §Program in Applied and Computational
Mathematics, and ∥Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, ‡Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, §Program in Applied and Computational
Mathematics, and ∥Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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Chang CH, Nesbitt DJ. Sub-Doppler infrared spectroscopy of propargyl radical (H2CCCH) in a slit supersonic expansion. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:244313. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4922931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Chih-Hsuan Chang
- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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Knyazev VD, Popov KV. Kinetics of the Self Reaction of Cyclopentadienyl Radicals. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:7418-29. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b00644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Vadim D. Knyazev
- Research Center for Chemical
Kinetics, Department of Chemistry, The Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia 20064, United States
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- Research Center for Chemical
Kinetics, Department of Chemistry, The Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia 20064, United States
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Polino D, Parrinello M. Combustion Chemistry via Metadynamics: Benzyl Decomposition Revisited. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:978-89. [DOI: 10.1021/jp5118807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Daniela Polino
- Department of Chemistry and
Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich and Facoltà di Informatica,
Istituto di Scienze Computazionali, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Via G. Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and
Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich and Facoltà di Informatica,
Istituto di Scienze Computazionali, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Via G. Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano Switzerland
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Tan T, Yang X, Ju Y, Carter EA. Ab initio pressure-dependent reaction kinetics of methyl propanoate radicals. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:31061-72. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp06004d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
The unimolecular dissociation and isomerization kinetics of the three methyl propanoate (MP) radicals, CH3CH2C(O)OĊH2 (MP-m), CH3ĊHC(O)OCH3 (MP-α), and ĊH2CH2C(O)OCH3 (MP-β), are theoretically investigated using high-level ab initio methods and the Rice–Ramsperger–Kassel–Marcus (RRKM)/master equation (ME) theory.
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- Ting Tan
- Department of Chemistry
- Princeton University
- Princeton
- USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Princeton University
- Princeton
- USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Princeton University
- Princeton
- USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Princeton University
- Princeton
- USA
- Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
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McIntosh GJ, Russell DK. Experimental and theoretical studies into the formation of C4-C6 products in partially chlorinated hydrocarbon pyrolysis systems: a probabilistic approach to congener-specific yield predictions. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:8644-63. [PMID: 25225996 DOI: 10.1021/jp5015516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
This work presents a study of the pyrolytic formation of vinylacetylene and benzene congeners formed from chlorinated hydrocarbon precursors, a complex, multipath polymerization system formed in a monomer-rich environment. (Co-)pyrolyses of dichloro- and trichloroethylene yield a rich array of products, and assuming a single dominant underlying growth mechanism, this (on comparing expected and observed products) allows a number of potentially competing channels to C4 and C6 products to be ruled out. Poor congener/isomer descriptions rule out even-carbon radical routes, and the absence of C3 and C5 products rule out odd-carbon processes. Vinylidenes appear unable to describe the increased reactivity of acetylenes with chlorination noted in our experiments, leaving molecular acetylene dimerization processes and, in C6 systems, the closely related Diels-Alder cyclization as the likely reaction mechanism. The feasibility of these routes is further supported by ab initio calculations. However, some of the most persuasive evidence is provided by congener-specific yield predictions enabled by the construction of a probability tree analogue of kinetic modeling. This approach is relatively quick to construct, provides surprisingly accurate predictions, and may be a very useful tool in screening for important reaction channels in poorly understood congener- or isomer-rich reaction systems.
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- Grant J McIntosh
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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Kuhn A, Miura D, Tomioka H, Wentrup C. C8H6 Thermal Chemistry. 7-Methylenecyclohepta-1,3,5-dienyne (Heptafulvyne) by Flash Vacuum Thermolysis–Matrix Isolation. Chemical Activation in the Rearrangements of Phenylenedicarbenes and of Benzocyclobutadiene to Phenylacetylene. Aust J Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1071/ch13670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Methylenecycloheptadienyne 11 (heptafulvyne) is obtained very cleanly by flash vacuum thermolysis (FVT) of the diazobenzocyclobutene precursor 8 at 400°C followed by isolation as a neat solid at 77 K or in an Ar matrix at 7–10 K. Compound 11 is a yellow solid, stable till ~–100°C in the neat state. The diazo compound itself (2) is observable by IR spectroscopy following mild decomposition of the tosylhydrazone salt 1 at 115°C. FVT of 8 at 200°C also generates diazo compound 2 as observed by IR spectroscopy and on-line mass spectrometry. FVT of 8 at 600–800°C causes rearrangement of 11 to phenylacetylene 12 and benzocyclobutadiene 13. Mechanisms for the rearrangements are proposed. Facile rearrangement of benzocyclobutadiene to phenylacetylene is ascribed to chemical activation, which is also seen to be involved in the rearrangement of p-, m-, and o-phenylenebiscarbenes 25–27 to phenylacetylene 12.
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Leavitt CM, Moradi CP, Acrey BW, Douberly GE. Infrared laser spectroscopy of the helium-solvated allyl and allyl peroxy radicals. J Chem Phys 2013; 139:234301. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4844175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Moradi CP, Morrison AM, Klippenstein SJ, Goldsmith CF, Douberly GE. Propargyl + O2 Reaction in Helium Droplets: Entrance Channel Barrier or Not? J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:13626-35. [DOI: 10.1021/jp407652f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Christopher P. Moradi
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Chemical
Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Chemical
Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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McIntosh GJ, Russell DK. Molecular mechanisms in the pyrolysis of unsaturated chlorinated hydrocarbons: formation of benzene rings. 2. Experimental and kinetic modeling studies. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:4198-213. [PMID: 23597210 DOI: 10.1021/jp3120385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The mechanism of formation of benzene rings during the pyrolysis of dichloro- and trichloroethylenes has been investigated by the method of laser powered homogeneous pyrolysis coupled with product analysis by gas chromatography. Additionally, selected (co)pyrolyses between the chlorinated ethylenes, CH2Cl2, C4Cl4, C4Cl6, and C2H2 have been performed to explicitly probe the roles of 2C3 and C4/C2 reaction pairs in aromatic growth. The presence of odd-carbon products in neat C4Cl6 pyrolyses indicates that 2C3 processes are operative in these systems; however, comparison with product yields from C2HCl3 suggests that C4/C2 processes dominate most other systems. This is further evidenced by an absence of C3 and other odd-carbon species in (co)pyrolyses with dichloromethane which should seed C3-based growth. The reactions of perchlorinated C4 species C4Cl5, C4Cl3, and C4Cl4 with C2Cl2 were subsequently explored through extensive kinetic simulations of the possible reaction pathways based on previous kinetic models and the exhaustive quantum chemical investigations of our preceding work. The experimental and theoretical results strongly suggest that, at moderate temperatures, aromatic ring formation from chlorinated ethylenes normally follows a Diels-Alder coupling of C4 and C2 molecular units followed by internal shifts; the one exception is the C4Cl4 + C2Cl2 system, where steric factors lead to the formation of nonaromatic products. There is little evidence for radical-based routes in these systems.
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- Grant J McIntosh
- Department of Chemistry, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
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McIntosh GJ, Russell DK. Molecular Mechanisms in the Pyrolysis of Unsaturated Chlorinated Hydrocarbons: Formation of Benzene Rings. 1. Quantum Chemical Studies. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:4183-97. [DOI: 10.1021/jp3120379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Grant J. McIntosh
- Department of Chemistry, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
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Zhang P, Klippenstein SJ, Law CK. Ab initio kinetics for the decomposition of hydroxybutyl and butoxy radicals of n-butanol. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:1890-906. [PMID: 23394217 DOI: 10.1021/jp400155z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The decomposition kinetics of the hydroxybutyl and butoxy radicals (C4H9O) arising via H abstraction from n-butanol were studied theoretically with ab initio transition-state-theory-based master equation analyses. Stationary points on the C4H9O potential energy surface were calculated at either the RQCISD(T)/CBS//B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level or the RQCISD(T)/CBS//CASPT2/aug-cc-pVDZ level. Unimolecular pressure- and temperature-dependent rate coefficients were calculated over broad ranges of temperature (300-2500 K) and pressure (1.3 × 10(-3) to 10(2) atm) by solving the time-dependent multiple-well master equation. The "well merging" phenomenon was observed and analyzed for its influence on the branching ratios and rate coefficients. The theoretical predictions were compared with the available experimental and theoretical data and any discrepancies were analyzed. The predicted rate coefficients are represented with forms that may readily be used in combustion modeling of n-butanol.
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- Peng Zhang
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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Mebel AM, Landera A. Product branching ratios in photodissociation of phenyl radical: a theoretical ab initio/Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus study. J Chem Phys 2012; 136:234305. [PMID: 22779591 DOI: 10.1063/1.4726455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ab initio CCSD(T)/CBS//B3LYP/6-311G** calculations of the potential energy surface for possible dissociation channels of the phenyl radical are combined with microcanonical Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus calculations of reaction rate constants in order to predict statistical product branching ratios in photodissociation of c-C(6)H(5) at various wavelengths. The results indicate that at 248 nm the photodissociation process is dominated by the production of ortho-benzyne via direct elimination of a hydrogen atom from the phenyl radical. At 193 nm, the statistical branching ratios are computed to be 63.4%, 21.1%, and 14.4% for the o-C(6)H(4) + H, l-C(6)H(4) ((Z)-hexa-3-ene-1,5-diyne) + H, and n-C(4)H(3) + C(2)H(2) products, respectively, in a contradiction with recent experimental measurements, which showed C(4)H(3) + C(2)H(2) as the major product. Although two lower energy pathways to the i-C(4)H(3) + C(2)H(2) products are identified, they appeared to be kinetically unfavorable and the computed statistical branching ratio of i-C(4)H(3) + C(2)H(2) does not exceed 1%. To explain the disagreement with experiment, we optimized conical intersections between the ground and the first excited electronic states of C(6)H(5) and, based on their structures and energies, suggested the following photodissociation mechanism at 193 nm: c-C(6)H(5) 1 → absorption of a photon → electronically excited 1 → internal conversion to the lowest excited state → conversion to the ground electronic state via conical intersections at CI-2 or CI-3 → non-statistical decay of the vibrationally excited radical favoring the formation of the n-C(4)H(3) + C(2)H(2) products. This scenario can be attained if the intramolecular vibrational redistribution in the CI-2 or CI-3 structures in the ground electronic state is slower than their dissociation to n-C(4)H(3) + C(2)H(2) driven by the dynamical preference.
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- Alexander M Mebel
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA.
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Wodrich MD, Corminboeuf C, Wheeler SE. Accurate Thermochemistry of Hydrocarbon Radicals via an Extended Generalized Bond Separation Reaction Scheme. J Phys Chem A 2012; 116:3436-47. [DOI: 10.1021/jp212209q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Matthew D. Wodrich
- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie
Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie
Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77842, United States
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Sebree JA, Kidwell NM, Selby TM, Amberger BK, McMahon RJ, Zwier TS. Photochemistry of Benzylallene: Ring-Closing Reactions to Form Naphthalene. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:1153-63. [PMID: 22148423 DOI: 10.1021/ja209189g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Joshua A. Sebree
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana 47907-2084,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana 47907-2084,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Washington County, 400
University Drive, West Bend, Wisconsin 53095,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1322,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1322,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana 47907-2084,
United States
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Kaiser RI, Gu X, Zhang F, Maksyutenko P. Crossed beam reactions of methylidyne [CH(X2Π)] with D2-acetylene [C2D2(X1Σg+)] and of D1-methylidyne [CD(X2Π)] with acetylene [C2H2(X1Σg+)]. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:575-88. [DOI: 10.1039/c1cp22635e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Frankcombe TJ, Smith SC. Selecting Methods to Solve Multi-Well Master Equations. JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL & COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY 2011. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219633603000483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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There are several competing methods commonly used to solve energy grained master equations describing gas-phase reactive systems. When it comes to selecting an appropriate method for any particular problem, there is little guidance in the literature. In this paper we directly compare several variants of spectral and numerical integration methods from the point of view of computer time required to calculate the solution and the range of temperature and pressure conditions under which the methods are successful. The test case used in the comparison is an important reaction in combustion chemistry and incorporates reversible and irreversible bimolecular reaction steps as well as isomerizations between multiple unimolecular species. While the numerical integration of the ODE with a stiff ODE integrator is not the fastest method overall, it is the fastest method applicable to all conditions.
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- Terry J. Frankcombe
- Department of Chemistry, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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Nagy A, Fulara J, Maier JP. Formation of Aromatic Structures from Chain Hydrocarbons in Electrical Discharges: Absorption and Fluorescence Study of C11H9+ and C11H9• Isomers in Neon Matrices. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:19796-806. [DOI: 10.1021/ja206522s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Adam Nagy
- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Chalyavi N, Bacskay GB, Menon AS, Troy TP, Davis NJLK, Radom L, Reid SA, Schmidt TW. Spectroscopy and thermochemistry of a jet-cooled open-shell polyene: 1,4-pentadienyl radical. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:124306. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3640475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Matsugi A, Suma K, Miyoshi A. Kinetics and Mechanisms of the Allyl + Allyl and Allyl + Propargyl Recombination Reactions. J Phys Chem A 2011; 115:7610-24. [DOI: 10.1021/jp203520j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Akira Matsugi
- Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Maksyutenko P, Zhang F, Gu X, Kaiser RI. A crossed molecular beam study on the reaction of methylidyne radicals [CH(X2Π)] with acetylene [C2H2(X1Σg+)]—competing C3H2+ H and C3H + H2channels. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:240-52. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cp01529f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Sebree JA, Kidwell NM, Buchanan EG, Zgierski MZ, Zwier TS. Spectroscopy and ionization thresholds of π-isoelectronic 1-phenylallyl and benzylallenyl resonance stabilized radicals. Chem Sci 2011. [DOI: 10.1039/c1sc00246e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Troy TP, Chalyavi N, Menon AS, O'Connor GD, Fückel B, Nauta K, Radom L, Schmidt TW. The spectroscopy and thermochemistry of phenylallyl radical chromophores. Chem Sci 2011. [DOI: 10.1039/c1sc00247c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Kaiser RI, Mebel AM. The reactivity of ground-state carbon atoms with unsaturated hydrocarbons in combustion flames and in the interstellar medium. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/01442350210136602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Thomas PS, Kline ND, Miller TA. Ã−X̃ Absorption of Propargyl Peroxy Radical (H−C≡C−CH2OO·): A Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopic and Computational Study. J Phys Chem A 2010; 114:12437-46. [PMID: 21050020 DOI: 10.1021/jp108158a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Phillip S. Thomas
- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 120 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 120 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 120 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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Choi JH. Radical–radical reaction dynamics: A combined crossed-beam and theoretical study. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/01442350600867173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Jong-Ho Choi
- a Department of Chemistry and Center for Electro- and Photo-Responsive Molecules , Korea University , 1, Anam-dong, Seoul 136-701 , Korea
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