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West NA, Li LHD, Millar TJ, Van de Sande M, Rutter E, Blitz MA, Lehman JH, Decin L, Heard DE. Experimental and theoretical study of the low-temperature kinetics of the reaction of CN with CH 2O and implications for interstellar environments. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:7719-7733. [PMID: 36876874 PMCID: PMC10015628 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp05043a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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Rate coefficients for the reaction of CN with CH2O were measured for the first time below room temperature in the range 32-103 K using a pulsed Laval nozzle apparatus together with the Pulsed Laser Photolysis-Laser-Induced Fluorescence technique. The rate coefficients exhibited a strong negative temperature dependence, reaching (4.62 ± 0.84) × 10-11 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 at 32 K, and no pressure dependence was observed at 70 K. The potential energy surface (PES) of the CN + CH2O reaction was calculated at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ//M06-2X/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory, with the lowest energy channel to reaction characterized by the formation of a weakly-bound van der Waals complex, bound by 13.3 kJ mol-1, prior to two transition states with energies of -0.62 and 3.97 kJ mol-1, leading to the products HCN + HCO or HNC + HCO, respectively. For the formation of formyl cyanide, HCOCN, a large activation barrier of 32.9 kJ mol-1 was calculated. Reaction rate theory calculations were performed with the MESMER (Master Equation Solver for Multi Energy well Reactions) package on this PES to calculate rate coefficients. While this ab initio description provided good agreement with the low-temperature rate coefficients, it was not capable of describing the high-temperature experimental rate coefficients from the literature. However, increasing the energies and imaginary frequencies of both transition states allowed MESMER simulations of the rate coefficients to be in good agreement with data spanning 32-769 K. The mechanism for the reaction is the formation of a weakly-bound complex followed by quantum mechanical tunnelling through the small barrier to form HCN + HCO products. MESMER calculations showed that channel generating HNC is not important. MESMER simulated the rate coefficients from 4-1000 K which were used to recommend best-fit modified Arrhenius expressions for use in astrochemical modelling. The UMIST Rate12 (UDfa) model yielded no significant changes in the abundances of HCN, HNC, and HCO for a variety of environments upon inclusion of rate coefficients reported here. The main implication from this study is that the title reaction is not a primary formation route to the interstellar molecule formyl cyanide, HCOCN, as currently implemented in the KIDA astrochemical model.
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- Niclas A West
- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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Wu LY, Miossec C, Heazlewood BR. Low-temperature reaction dynamics of paramagnetic species in the gas phase. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:3240-3254. [PMID: 35188499 PMCID: PMC8902758 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc06394d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Radicals are abundant in a range of important gas-phase environments. They are prevalent in the atmosphere, in interstellar space, and in combustion processes. As such, understanding how radicals react is essential for the development of accurate models of the complex chemistry occurring in these gas-phase environments. By controlling the properties of the colliding reactants, we can also gain insights into how radical reactions occur on a fundamental level. Recent years have seen remarkable advances in the breadth of experimental methods successfully applied to the study of reaction dynamics involving paramagnetic species-from improvements to the well-known crossed molecular beams approach to newer techniques involving magnetically guided and decelerated beams. Coupled with ever-improving theoretical methods, quantum features are being observed and interesting insights into reaction dynamics are being uncovered in an increasingly diverse range of systems. In this highlight article, we explore some of the exciting recent developments in the study of chemical dynamics involving paramagnetic species. We focus on low-energy reactive collisions involving neutral radical species, where the reaction parameters are controlled. We conclude by identifying some of the limitations of current methods and exploring possible new directions for the field.
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- Lok Yiu Wu
- The Oliver Lodge, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Oxford Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK.
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, UK
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- The Oliver Lodge, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Oxford Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK.
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, UK
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- The Oliver Lodge, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Oxford Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK.
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Durif O, Capron M, Messinger JP, Benidar A, Biennier L, Bourgalais J, Canosa A, Courbe J, Garcia GA, Gil JF, Nahon L, Okumura M, Rutkowski L, Sims IR, Thiévin J, Le Picard SD. A new instrument for kinetics and branching ratio studies of gas phase collisional processes at very low temperatures. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2021; 92:014102. [PMID: 33514236 DOI: 10.1063/5.0029991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A new instrument dedicated to the kinetic study of low-temperature gas phase neutral-neutral reactions, including clustering processes, is presented. It combines a supersonic flow reactor with vacuum ultra-violet synchrotron photoionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. A photoion-photoelectron coincidence detection scheme has been adopted to optimize the particle counting efficiency. The characteristics of the instrument are detailed along with its capabilities illustrated through a few results obtained at low temperatures (<100 K) including a photoionization spectrum of n-butane, the detection of formic acid dimer formation, and the observation of diacetylene molecules formed by the reaction between the C2H radical and C2H2.
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- O Durif
- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- LATMOS/IPSL, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, UPMC, Univ Paris 06, CNRS, 78280 Guyancourt, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'orme des Merisiers, BP48 St Aubin, 91192 Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'orme des Merisiers, BP48 St Aubin, 91192 Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'orme des Merisiers, BP48 St Aubin, 91192 Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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Seif A, Domingo LR, Ahmadi TS. Calculation of the rate constants for hydrogen abstraction reactions by Hydroperoxyl radical from Methanol, and the investigation of stability of CH3OH.HO2 complex. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2020.113010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Gas phase reaction kinetics of complex organic molecules at temperatures of the interstellar medium: The OH + CH3OH case. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.1017/s1743921319006446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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AbstractRecent experimental and theoretical works concerning gas-phase radical-neutral reactions involving Complex Organic Molecules are reviewed in the context of cold interstellar objects with a special emphasis on the OH + CH3OH reaction and its potential impact on the formation of CH3O.
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Xiao F, Sun X, Li Z, Li X. Theoretical Study of Radical-Molecule Reactions with Negative Activation Energies in Combustion: Hydroxyl Radical Addition to Alkenes. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:12777-12788. [PMID: 32548462 PMCID: PMC7288374 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c00400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 05/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Many of the radical-molecule reactions are nonelementary reactions with negative activation energies, which usually proceed through two steps. They exist extensively in the atmospheric chemistry and hydrocarbon fuel combustion, so they are extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally. At the same time, various models, such as a two transition state model, a steady-state model, an equilibrium-state model, and a direct elementary dynamics model are proposed to get the kinetic parameters for the overall reaction. In this paper, a conversion temperature T C1 is defined as the temperature at which the standard molar Gibbs free energy change of the formation of the reaction complex is equal to zero, and it is found that when T ≫ T C1, the direct elementary dynamics model with an inclusion of the tunneling correction of the second step reaction is applicable to calculate the overall reaction rate constants for this kind of reaction system. The reaction class of hydroxyl radical addition to alkenes is chosen as the objects of this study, five reactions are chosen as the representative for the reaction class, and their single-point energies are calculated using the method of CCSD(T)/CBS, and it is shown that the highest conversion temperature for the five reactions is 139.89 K, far below the usual initial low-temperature (550 K) oxidation chemistry of hydrocarbon fuels; therefore, the steady-state approximation method is applicable. All geometry optimizations are performed at the BH&HLYP/6-311+G(d,p) level, and the result shows that the geometric parameters in the reaction centers are conserved; hence, the isodesmic reaction method is applicable to this reaction class. To validate the accuracy of this scheme, a comparison of electronic energy difference at the BH&HLYP/6-311+G(d,p) level and the corrected electronic energy difference with the electronic energy difference at the CCSD(T)/CBS level is performed for the five representative reactions, and it is shown that the maximum absolute deviation of electronic energy difference can be reduced from 2.54 kcal·mol-1 before correction to 0.58 kcal·mol-1 after correction, indicating that the isodesmic reaction method is applicable for the accurate calculation of the kinetic parameters for large-size molecular systems with a negative activation energy reaction. The overall rate constants for 44 reactions of the reaction class of hydroxyl radical addition to alkenes are calculated using the transition-state theory in combination with the isodesmic correction scheme, and high-pressure limit rate rules for the reaction class are developed. In addition, the thermodynamic parameter is calculated and the results indicate that our dynamics model is applicable for our studied reaction class. A chemical kinetic modeling and sensitivity analysis using the calculated kinetic data is performed for the combustion of ethene, and the results indicate the studied reaction is important for the low-to-medium temperature combustion modeling of ethene.
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- FengXia Xiao
- College
of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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- College
of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, P. R. China
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- College
of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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- College
of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, P. R. China
- Engineering
Research Center of Combustion and Cooling for Aerospace Power, Ministry
of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065, P. R. China
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Bulut N, Aguado A, Sanz-Sanz C, Roncero O. Quantum Effects on the D + H 3+ → H 2D + + H Deuteration Reaction and Isotopic Variants. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:8766-8775. [PMID: 31545608 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The title reaction and its isotopic variants are studied using quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) (without taking into account corrections to account for the possible zero point energy breakdown) and ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) methods with a full dimensional and accurate potential energy surface which presents an exchange barrier of approximately 0.144 eV. The QCT rate constant increases when the temperature decreases from 1500 to 10 K. On the contrary, the RPMD rate constant decreases with decreasing temperature, in semiquantitative agreement with recent experimental results. The present RPMD results are in between the thermal and translational experimental rate constants, extracted from the measured data to eliminate the initial vibrational excitation of H3+, obtained in an arc discharge. The difference between the present RPMD results and experimental values is attributed to the possible existence of non thermal vibrational excitation of H3+, not completely removed by the semiempirical model used for the analysis of the experimental results. Also, it is found that, below 200 K, the RPMD trajectories are trapped, forming long-lived collision complexes, with lifetimes longer than 1 ns. These collision complexes can fragment by either redissociating back to reactants or react to products, in the two cases tunneling through the centrifugal and reaction barriers, respectively. The contribution of the formation of the complex to the total deuteration rate should be calculated with more accurate quantum methods, as has been found recently for reactions of larger systems, and the present four atoms system is a good candidate to benchmark the adequacy of RPMD method at temperatures below 100 K.
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- Niyazi Bulut
- Department of Physics , Firat University , 23169 Elazig , Turkey
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- Unidad Asociada UAM-IFF-CSIC, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Módulo 14 , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , 28049 , Madrid , Spain
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- Unidad Asociada UAM-IFF-CSIC, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Módulo 14 , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , 28049 , Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C.S.I.C. , Serrano 123 , 28006 Madrid , Spain
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Blázquez S, González D, García-Sáez A, Antiñolo M, Bergeat A, Caralp F, Mereau R, Canosa A, Ballesteros B, Albaladejo J, Jiménez E. Experimental and theoretical investigation on the OH + CH 3C(O)CH 3 reaction at interstellar temperatures (T=11.7-64.4 K). ACS EARTH & SPACE CHEMISTRY 2019; 3:1873-1883. [PMID: 31799490 PMCID: PMC6887536 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The rate coefficient, k(T), for the gas-phase reaction between OH radicals and acetone CH3C(O)CH3, has been measured using the pulsed CRESU (French acronym for Reaction Kinetics in a Uniform Supersonic Flow) technique (T = 11.7-64.4 K). The temperature dependence of k(T = 10-300 K) has also been computed using a RRKM-Master equation analysis after partial revision of the potential energy surface. In agreement with previous studies we found that the reaction proceeds via initial formation of two pre-reactive complexes both leading to H2O + CH3C(O)CH2 by H-abstraction tunneling. The experimental k(T) was found to increase as temperature was lowered. The measured values have been found to be several orders of magnitude higher than k(300 K). This trend is reproduced by calculations, with a special good agreement with experiments below 25 K. The effect of total gas density on k(T) has been explored. Experimentally, no pressure dependence of k(20 K) and k(64 K) was observed, while k(50 K) at the largest gas density 4.47×1017 cm-3 is twice higher than the average values found at lower densities. The computed k(T) is also reported for 103 cm-3 of He (representative of the interstellar medium). The predicted rate coefficients at 10 K surround the experimental value which appears to be very close to the low pressure regime prevailing in the interstellar medium. For gas-phase model chemistry of interstellar molecular clouds, we suggest using the calculated value of 1.8×10-10 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 at 10 K and the reaction products are water and CH3C(O)CH2 radicals.
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- Sergio Blázquez
- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Camilo José Cela, 1B. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Camilo José Cela, 1B. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Camilo José Cela, 1B. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación en Combustión y Contaminación Atmosférica (ICCA). Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Camino de Moledores s/n. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, F-33405 Talence, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, F-33405 Talence, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, F-33405 Talence, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Camilo José Cela, 1B. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación en Combustión y Contaminación Atmosférica (ICCA). Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Camino de Moledores s/n. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Camilo José Cela, 1B. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación en Combustión y Contaminación Atmosférica (ICCA). Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Camino de Moledores s/n. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Camilo José Cela, 1B. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación en Combustión y Contaminación Atmosférica (ICCA). Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Camino de Moledores s/n. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
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Several considerations on the empirical rate formula for ion-molecule reactions and low-temperature-high-speed radical reactions. Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2019.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Naumkin F, del Mazo-Sevillano P, Aguado A, Suleimanov YV, Roncero O. Zero- and high-pressure mechanisms in the complex forming reactions of OH with methanol and formaldehyde at low temperatures. ACS EARTH & SPACE CHEMISTRY 2019; 3:1158-1169. [PMID: 31511842 PMCID: PMC6739233 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A recent Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics study of the reactions of OH with methanol and formaldehyde, at zero pressure and below 100 K, has shown the formation of long lived complexes, with long lifetimes, longer than 100 ns for the lower temperatures studied, 20-100 K (del Mazo-Sevillano et al., 2019). These long lifetimes support the existence of multi collision events with the He buffer-gas atoms under experimental conditions, as suggested by several transition state theory studies of these reactions. In this work we study these secondary collisions, as a dynamical approach to study pressure effects on these reactions. For this purpose, the potential energy surfaces of He with H2CO, OH, H2O and HCO are calculated at highly accurate ab initio level. The stability of some of the complexes is studied using Path Integral Molecular dynamics techniques, determining that OH-H2CO complexes can be formed up to 100 K or higher temperatures, while the weaker He-H2CO complexes dissociate at approximately 50 K. The predicted IR intensity spectra shows new features which could help the identification of the OH-H2CO complex. Finally, the He-H2CO + OH and OH-H2CO + He collisions are studied using quassi-classical trajectories, finding that the cross section to produce HCO + H2O products increases with decreasing collision energy, and that it is ten times higher in the He-H2CO + OH case.
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- Unidad Asociada UAM-IFF-CSIC, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Módulo 14, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad Asociada UAM-IFF-CSIC, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Módulo 14, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, Cyprus Institute, 20 Kavafi Str., Nicosia 2121, Cyprus
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C.S.I.C., Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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del Mazo-Sevillano P, Aguado A, Jiménez E, Suleimanov YV, Roncero O. Quantum Roaming in the Complex-Forming Mechanism of the Reactions of OH with Formaldehyde and Methanol at Low Temperature and Zero Pressure: A Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics Approach. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:1900-1907. [PMID: 30939028 PMCID: PMC6534501 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The quantum dynamics of the title reactions are studied using the ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) method from 20 to 1200 K using recently proposed full dimensional potential energy surfaces which include long-range dipole-dipole interactions. A V-shaped dependence of the reaction rate constants is found with a minimum at 200-300 K, in rather good agreement with the current experimental data. For temperatures above 300 K the reaction proceeds following a direct H-abstraction mechanism. However, below 100 K the reaction proceeds via organic-molecule···OH collision complexes, with very long lifetimes, longer than 10-7 s, associated with quantum roaming arising from the inclusion of quantum effects by the use of RPMD. The long lifetimes of these complexes are comparable to the time scale of the tunnelling to form reaction products. These complexes are formed at zero pressure because of quantum effects and not only at high pressure as suggested by transition state theory (TST) calculations for OH + methanol and other OH reactions. The zero-pressure rate constants reproduce quite well measured ones below 200 K, and this agreement opens the question of how important the pressure effects on the reaction rate constants are, as implied in TST-like formalisms. The zero-pressure mechanism is applicable only to very low gas density environments, such as the interstellar medium, which are not repeatable by experiments.
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- Pablo del Mazo-Sevillano
- Unidad Asociada UAM-CSIC, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias M-14, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad Asociada UAM-CSIC, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias M-14, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Avda. Camilo José Cela 1B, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación en Combustión y Contaminación Atmosférica, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Camino de Moledores s/n, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, Cyprus Institute, 20 Kavafi Str., Nicosia 2121, Cyprus
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C.S.I.C., Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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Tu Y, Wang JB, Li XY. Theoretical study of hydrogen abstraction by small radicals from cyclohexane-carbonyl-hydroperoxide. Theor Chem Acc 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-019-2426-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Mazarei E, Hosein Mousavipour S. Theoretical Study on the Dynamics and Kinetics of the Reaction of CH 2OH with OH. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:9761-9777. [PMID: 30508487 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b09621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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 stochastic one-dimensional chemical master equation (CME) simulation method was used to investigate the dynamics of the reaction of CH2OH with OH. A multiwell multichannel potential energy surface (PES) was constructed at the CCSD(T)/Aug-cc-pVTZ//CBS-QB3 and QCISD(T)/Aug-cc-pVTZ//CBS-QB3 levels of theory. The constructed PES consisted of three chemically activated intermediates and two van der Waals complexes. The fractional population analysis unraveled the role of the energized intermediates and van der Waals complexes in the early stages of this complex reaction. The CME calculations provided the phenomenological rate constants through analysis of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of collision matrices while Leonard-Jones potential was used to model the collisions. The CME results indicated that CH2O and H2O were the major products, in accordance with the literature. Also, the findings declared the temperature and pressure independence of the reaction over a wide range of temperature (250 to 2400 K) and pressure (0.1 to 7 atm). Furthermore, the efficiency of tunneling on the hydrogen transfer isomerization reaction of trans-HCOH to CH2O was confirmed over the temperature range of 250 to 3000 K. The rate constants for different reaction channels are reported.
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- Elham Mazarei
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science , Shiraz University , Shiraz , Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science , Shiraz University , Shiraz , Iran.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science , Sultan Qaboos University , Muscat , Sultanate of Oman
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Heard DE. Rapid Acceleration of Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Reactions of OH at Very Low Temperatures through Weakly Bound Complexes and Tunneling. Acc Chem Res 2018; 51:2620-2627. [PMID: 30358991 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A generally accepted principle of chemical kinetics is that a reaction will be very slow at low temperatures if there is an activation barrier on the potential energy surface to form products. However, this Account shows that the reverse is true for gas-phase hydrogen abstraction reactions of the hydroxyl radical, OH, with organic molecules with which it can form a weakly bound (5-30 kJ mol-1) hydrogen-bonded complex. For hydrogen atom abstraction reactions of OH with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) containing alcohol, ether, carbonyl, and ester functional groups, the reaction accelerates rapidly at very low temperatures, with rate coefficients, k, that can be up to a 1000 times faster than those at room temperature, despite the barrier to products. The OH radical is a crucial intermediate in Earth's atmosphere, combustion processes, and the chemistry of the interstellar medium, where temperatures can reach as low as 10 K, so this behavior has very important implications for gas-phase chemistry in space. The key point is that at low temperatures the lifetime of the OH-VOC complex against re-dissociation back to reactants becomes much longer, and hence the probability of quantum mechanical tunneling under the reaction barrier to form products becomes much higher. These observations were made possible by using Laval nozzles to generate uniform supersonic flows at extremely low temperatures so that condensation of the reagents at reactor walls is avoided. In this Account, the use of laser flash-photolysis combined with laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy within Laval flows is described to study the unusual kinetics of this type of reaction at temperatures down to 21 K and demonstrate the rapid upturn in the rate coefficient. For the reaction of OH with CH3OH, further evidence for the precomplex and tunneling mechanism comes from observation of the CH3O reaction product at very low temperatures, despite it being formed over the higher barrier to reaction. The experimental observations are supported by theoretical calculations using the MESMER master equation package to calculate k( T) and product yields as a function of temperature and which make use of potential energy surfaces determined using ab initio methods. The CH3O product is formed over a narrower barrier with a larger imaginary frequency and is calculated to be the sole product at very low temperatures. The kinetics of the OH reaction with CH3OH were measured to be independent of pressure, consistent with a tunneling mechanism rather than any collisional stabilization of the prereactive complex. In this Account, we collate available kinetic data and show that this newly discovered mechanism for H atom transfer reactions appears to be generally applicable for reactions of OH with organic molecules containing oxygenated functional groups, which have been observed in space by radio-astronomy. Rather than being ignored for a range of interstellar environments, these OH reactions are now being included in chemical networks in space and have been shown to significantly influence the abundance of OH, the organic molecules themselves, and reaction products and provide novel routes to forming even more complex functional groups, for example, precursors to prebiotic molecules.
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- Dwayne E. Heard
- School of Chemistry and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Roncero O, Zanchet A, Aguado A. Low temperature reaction dynamics for CH 3OH + OH collisions on a new full dimensional potential energy surface. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:25951-25958. [PMID: 30294740 PMCID: PMC6290987 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04970j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Is the rise of the rate constant measured in laval expansion experiments of OH with organic molecules at low temperatures due to the reaction between the reactants or due to the formation of complexes with the buffer gas? This question has importance for understanding the evolution of prebiotic molecules observed in different astrophysical objects. Among these molecules methanol is one of the most widely observed, and its reaction with OH has been studied by several groups showing a fast increase in the rate constant under 100 K. Transition state theory doesn't reproduce this behavior and here dynamical calculations are performed on a new full dimensional potential energy surface developed for this purpose. The calculated classical reactive cross sections show an increase at low collision energies due to a complex forming mechanism. However, the calculated rate constant at temperatures below 100 K remains lower than the observed one. Quantum effects are likely responsible for the measured behavior at low temperatures.
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- Octavio Roncero
- Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C.S.I.C., Serrano 123, Madrid 28006, Spain.
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Ocaña AJ, Blázquez S, Ballesteros B, Canosa A, Antiñolo M, Albaladejo J, Jiménez E. Gas phase kinetics of the OH + CH 3CH 2OH reaction at temperatures of the interstellar medium (T = 21-107 K). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:5865-5873. [PMID: 29417104 PMCID: PMC5975950 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07868d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ethanol, CH3CH2OH, has been unveiled in the interstellar medium (ISM) by radioastronomy and it is thought to be released into the gas phase after the warm-up phase of the grain surface, where it is formed. Once in the gas phase, it can be destroyed by different reactions with atomic and radical species, such as hydroxyl (OH) radicals. The knowledge of the rate coefficients of all these processes at temperatures of the ISM is essential in the accurate interpretation of the observed abundances. In this work, we have determined the rate coefficient for the reaction of OH with CH3CH2OH (k(T)) between 21 and 107 K by employing the pulsed and continuous CRESU (Cinétique de Réaction en Ecoulement Supersonique Uniforme, which means Reaction Kinetics in a Uniform Supersonic Flow) technique. The pulsed laser photolysis technique was used for generating OH radicals, whose time evolution was monitored by laser induced fluorescence. An increase of approximately 4 times was observed for k(21 K) with respect to k(107 K). With respect to k(300 K), the OH-reactivity at 21 K is enhanced by two orders of magnitude. The obtained T-expression in the investigated temperature range is k(T) = (2.1 ± 0.5) × 10-11 (T/300 K)-(0.71±0.10) cm3 molecule-1 s-1. In addition, the pressure dependence of k(T) has been investigated at several temperatures between 21 K and 90 K. No pressure dependence of k(T) was observed in the investigated ranges. This may imply that this reaction is purely bimolecular or that the high-pressure limit is reached at the lowest total pressure experimentally accessible in our system. From our results, k(T) at usual IS temperatures (∼10-100 K) is confirmed to be very fast. Typical rate coefficients can be considered to range within about 4 × 10-11 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 at 100 K and around 1 × 10-10 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 at 20 K. The extrapolation of k at the lowest temperatures of the dense molecular clouds of ISM is also discussed in this paper.
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- A J Ocaña
- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Camilo José Cela, 1B, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain.
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Wu J, Ning H, Ma L, Ren W. Pressure-dependent kinetics of methyl formate reactions with OH at combustion, atmospheric and interstellar temperatures. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:26190-26199. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04114h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Pressure dependence occurs in bimolecular hydrogen abstraction reactions at combustion, atmospheric and interstellar temperatures.
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- Junjun Wu
- Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- New Territories
- Hong Kong
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- Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- New Territories
- Hong Kong
- Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- New Territories
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- Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- New Territories
- Hong Kong
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- Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- New Territories
- Hong Kong
- Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- New Territories
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Ocaña AJ, Jiménez E, Ballesteros B, Canosa A, Antiñolo M, Albaladejo J, Agúndez M, Cernicharo J, Zanchet A, del Mazo P, Roncero O, Aguado A. Is the gas-phase OH+H 2CO reaction a source of HCO in interstellar cold dark clouds? A kinetic, dynamic and modelling study. THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2017; 850:28. [PMID: 29880977 PMCID: PMC5988043 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa93d9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Chemical kinetics of neutral-neutral gas-phase reactions at ultralow temperatures is a fascinating research subject with important implications on the chemistry of complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium (T∼10-100K). Scarce kinetic information is currently available for this kind of reactions at T<200 K. In this work we use the CRESU (Cinétique de Réaction en Ecoulement Supersonique Uniforme, which means Reaction Kinetics in a Uniform Supersonic Flow) technique to measure for the first time the rate coefficients (k) of the gas-phase OH+H2CO reaction between 22 and 107 K. k values greatly increase from 2.1×10-11 cm3 s-1 at 107 K to 1.2×10-10 cm3 s-1 at 22 K. This is also confirmed by quasi-classical trajectories (QCT) at collision energies down to 0.1 meV performed using a new full dimension and ab initio potential energy surface, recently developed which generates highly accurate potential and includes long range dipole-dipole interactions. QCT calculations indicate that at low temperatures HCO is the exclusive product for the OH+H2CO reaction. In order to revisit the chemistry of HCO in cold dense clouds, k is reasonably extrapolated from the experimental results at 10K (2.6×10-10 cm3 s-1). The modeled abundances of HCO are in agreement with the observations in cold dark clouds for an evolving time of 105-106 yrs. The different sources of production of HCO are presented and the uncertainties in the chemical networks discussed. This reaction can be expected to be a competitive process in the chemistry of prestellar cores. The present reaction is shown to account for a few percent of the total HCO production rate. Extensions to photodissociation regions and diffuse clouds environments are also commented.
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- A. J. Ocaña
- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Avda. Camilo José Cela 1B. 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Avda. Camilo José Cela 1B. 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación en Combustión y Contaminación Atmosférica. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Camino de Moledores s/n. 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Avda. Camilo José Cela 1B. 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación en Combustión y Contaminación Atmosférica. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Camino de Moledores s/n. 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR 6251 CNRS-Université de Rennes 1. Campus de Beaulieu, Bât 11C, 263 Av. Général Leclerc, 35042, Rennes, France
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- Instituto de Investigación en Combustión y Contaminación Atmosférica. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Camino de Moledores s/n. 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física. Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Avda. Camilo José Cela 1B. 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación en Combustión y Contaminación Atmosférica. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Camino de Moledores s/n. 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. C/ Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3. 28049, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. C/ Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3. 28049, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, C/ Serrano, 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, C/ Serrano, 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, C/ Serrano, 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física Aplicada (UAM), Unidad Asociada IFF-CSIC, Facultad de Ciencias C-XIV, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Mazarei E, Mousavipour SH. A Theoretical Study on the Dynamics of the Reaction of CH Radicals with Water. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:8033-8047. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b05504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Elham Mazarei
- Department of Chemistry,
College of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Potapov A, Canosa A, Jiménez E, Rowe B. Chemie mit Überschall: 30 Jahre astrochemische Forschung und künftige Herausforderungen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201611240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Alexey Potapov
- Laborastrophysikgruppe des Max-Planck-Instituts für Astronomie am Institut für Festkörperphysik; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Helmholtzweg 3 07743 Jena Deutschland
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- Département de Physique Moléculaire; Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR CNRS-UR1 6251, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu; 263 Avenue du Général Leclerc 35042 Rennes Cedex Frankreich
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas; Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; Avda. Camilo José Cela, 1B 13071 Ciudad Real Spanien
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- Rowe-consulting, 22 Chemin des Moines; 22750 Saint Jacut de la Mer Frankreich
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Potapov A, Canosa A, Jiménez E, Rowe B. Uniform Supersonic Chemical Reactors: 30 Years of Astrochemical History and Future Challenges. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:8618-8640. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2016] [Revised: 01/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Alexey Potapov
- Laborastrophysikgruppe des Max-Planck-Instituts für Astronomie am Institut für Festkörperphysik; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Helmholtzweg 3 07743 Jena Germany
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- Département de Physique Moléculaire; Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR CNRS-UR1 6251, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu; 263 Avenue du Général Leclerc 35042 Rennes Cedex France
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas; Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; Avda. Camilo José Cela, 1B 13071 Ciudad Real Spain
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- Rowe-consulting, 22 Chemin des Moines; 22750 Saint Jacut de la Mer France
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Hickson KM, Loison JC, Nuñez-Reyes D, Méreau R. Quantum Tunneling Enhancement of the C + H2O and C + D2O Reactions at Low Temperature. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:3641-3646. [PMID: 27574866 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Recent studies of neutral gas-phase reactions characterized by barriers show that certain complex forming processes involving light atoms are enhanced by quantum mechanical tunneling at low temperature. Here, we performed kinetic experiments on the activated C((3)P) + H2O reaction, observing a surprising reactivity increase below 100 K, an effect that is only partially reproduced when water is replaced by its deuterated analogue. Product measurements of H- and D-atom formation allowed us to quantify the contribution of complex stabilization to the total rate while confirming the lower tunneling efficiency of deuterium. This result, which is validated through statistical calculations of the intermediate complexes and transition states has important consequences for simulated interstellar water abundances and suggests that tunneling mechanisms could be ubiquitous in cold dense clouds.
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- Kevin M Hickson
- University Bordeaux, ISM, CNRS UMR 5255, F-33400 Talence, France
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- University Bordeaux, ISM, CNRS UMR 5255, F-33400 Talence, France
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Reactivity of OH and CH 3OH Between 22 and 64 K: Modelling the Gas Phase Production of CH 3O in Barnard 1B. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 823. [PMID: 27279655 DOI: 10.3847/0004-637x/823/1/25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In the last years, ultra-low temperature chemical kinetic experiments have demonstrated that some gas-phase reactions are much faster than previously thought. One example is the reaction between OH and CH3OH, which has been recently found to be accelerated at low temperatures yielding CH3O as main product. This finding opened the question of whether the CH3O observed in the dense core Barnard 1b could be formed by the gas-phase reaction of CH3OH and OH. Several chemical models including this reaction and grain-surface processes have been developed to explain the observed abundance of CH3O with little success. Here we report for the first time rate coefficients for the gas-phase reaction of OH and CH3OH down to a temperature of 22 K, very close to those in cold interstellar clouds. Two independent experimental set-ups based on the supersonic gas expansion technique coupled to the pulsed laser photolysis-laser induced fluorescence technique were used to determine rate coefficients in the temperature range 22-64 K. The temperature dependence obtained in this work can be expressed as k(22-64 K) = (3.6 ± 0.1) × 10-12(T/300 K)-(1.0±0.2) cm3 molecule-1 s-1. Implementing this expression in a chemical model of a cold dense cloud results in CH3O/CH3OH abundance ratios similar or slightly lower than the value of ∼ 3 × 10-3 observed in Barnard 1b. This finding confirms that the gas-phase reaction between OH and CH3OH is an important contributor to the formation of interstellar CH3O. The role of grain-surface processes in the formation of CH3O, although it cannot be fully neglected, remains controversial.
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Sleiman C, González S, Klippenstein SJ, Talbi D, El Dib G, Canosa A. Pressure dependent low temperature kinetics for CN + CH3CN: competition between chemical reaction and van der Waals complex formation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:15118-32. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp01982j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The gas phase reaction between the CN radical and acetonitrile CH3CN was investigated experimentally with a CRESU apparatus and a slow flow reactor as well as theoretically to explore the temperature and pressure dependence of its rate coefficient from 354 K down to 23 K.
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- Chantal Sleiman
- Département de Physique Moléculaire
- Institut de Physique de Rennes
- UMR 6251 du CNRS - Université de Rennes 1
- Bat. 11C
- Campus de Beaulieu
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- Departamento de Química Física
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
- Campus Universitario
- 13071 Ciudad Real
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- Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier – UMR 5299 du CNRS - Université de Montpellier
- Campus Triolet
- 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05
- France
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- Département de Physique Moléculaire
- Institut de Physique de Rennes
- UMR 6251 du CNRS - Université de Rennes 1
- Bat. 11C
- Campus de Beaulieu
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- Département de Physique Moléculaire
- Institut de Physique de Rennes
- UMR 6251 du CNRS - Université de Rennes 1
- Bat. 11C
- Campus de Beaulieu
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Jiménez E, Antiñolo M, Ballesteros B, Canosa A, Albaladejo J. First evidence of the dramatic enhancement of the reactivity of methyl formate (HC(O)OCH3) with OH at temperatures of the interstellar medium: a gas-phase kinetic study between 22 K and 64 K. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:2183-91. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp06369h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The gas phase chemistry of neutral-neutral reactions of interest in the interstellar medium (ISM) is poorly understood.
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- E. Jiménez
- Departamento de Química Física
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
- 13071 Ciudad Real
- Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
- 13071 Ciudad Real
- Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
- 13071 Ciudad Real
- Spain
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- Département de Physique Moléculaire
- Institut de Physique de Rennes
- UMR CNRS-UR1 6251
- Université de Rennes 1
- 35042 Rennes Cedex
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- Departamento de Química Física
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
- 13071 Ciudad Real
- Spain
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Espinosa-Garcia J, Rangel C, Corchado JC. Rate constant calculations of the GeH4 + OH/OD → GeH3 + H2O/HOD reactions using an ab initio based full-dimensional potential energy surface. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:16941-9. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp02986h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [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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2D representation of the analytical potential energy surface. The saddle point and the complexes in the entry and exit channels are included.
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- J. Espinosa-Garcia
- Departamento de Quimica Fisica and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada
- Universidad de Extremadura
- 06071 Badajoz
- Spain
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada
- Universidad de Extremadura
- 06071 Badajoz
- Spain
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada
- Universidad de Extremadura
- 06071 Badajoz
- Spain
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Priya AM, Senthilkumar L. Reaction of OH radical and ozone with methyl salicylate - a DFT study. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/poc.3447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- A. Mano Priya
- Department of Physics; Bharathiar University; Coimbatore 641046 Tamil Nadu India
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Ree J, Kim YH, Shin HK. Dependence of the Four-Atom Reaction HBr + OH → Br + H2O on Temperatures between 20 and 2000 K. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:3147-60. [DOI: 10.1021/jp511505h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- J. Ree
- Department
of Chemistry Education, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557 United States
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Caravan RL, Shannon RJ, Lewis T, Blitz MA, Heard DE. Measurements of Rate Coefficients for Reactions of OH with Ethanol and Propan-2-ol at Very Low Temperatures. J Phys Chem A 2014; 119:7130-7. [DOI: 10.1021/jp505790m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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Paulson LO, Mutunga FM, Follett SE, Anderson DT. Reactions of Atomic Hydrogen with Formic Acid and Carbon Monoxide in Solid Parahydrogen I: Anomalous Effect of Temperature. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:7640-52. [DOI: 10.1021/jp502470j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Leif O. Paulson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, United States
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Gómez Martín JC, Caravan RL, Blitz MA, Heard DE, Plane JMC. Low temperature kinetics of the CH3OH + OH reaction. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:2693-701. [PMID: 24669816 DOI: 10.1021/jp5002995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The rate constant of the reaction between methanol and the hydroxyl radical has been studied in the temperature range 56-202 K by pulsed laser photolysis-laser induced fluorescence in two separate experiments using either a low temperature flow tube coupled to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer or a pulsed Laval nozzle apparatus. The two independent techniques yield rate constants that are in mutual agreement and consistent with the results reported previously below 82 K [Shannon et al. Nat. Chem. 2013, 5, 745-749] and above 210 K [Dillon et al. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2005, 7, 349-355], showing a very sharp increase with decreasing temperature with an onset around 180 K. This onset is also signaled by strong chemiluminescence tentatively assigned to formaldehyde, which is consistent with the formation of the methoxy radical at low temperature by quantum tunnelling, and its subsequent reaction with H and OH. Our results add confidence to the previous low temperature rate constant measurements and consolidate the experimental reference data set for further theoretical work required to describe quantitatively the tunnelling mechanism operating in this reaction. An additional measurement of the rate constant at 56 K yielded a value of (4.9 ± 0.8) × 10(-11) cm(3) molecule(-1) s(-1) (2σ), showing that the rate constant is increasing less rapidly at temperatures below 70 K.
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Shannon RJ, Caravan RL, Blitz MA, Heard DE. A combined experimental and theoretical study of reactions between the hydroxyl radical and oxygenated hydrocarbons relevant to astrochemical environments. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:3466-78. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54664k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Rate coefficients for the reactions of the hydroxyl radical with acetone and dimethyl ether increase dramatically at very low temperatures.
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- School of Chemistry
- University of Leeds
- Leeds, UK
- National Centre for Atmospheric Science
- University of Leeds
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- School of Chemistry
- University of Leeds
- Leeds, UK
- National Centre for Atmospheric Science
- University of Leeds
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Vu ND, Khamaganov V, Nguyen VS, Carl SA, Peeters J. Absolute Rate Coefficient of the Gas-Phase Reaction between Hydroxyl Radical (OH) and Hydroxyacetone: Investigating the Effects of Temperature and Pressure. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:12208-15. [DOI: 10.1021/jp407701z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Ngoc Duy Vu
- The Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- The Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- The Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- The Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- The Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Reaction of Dimethyl Ether with Hydroxyl Radicals: Kinetic Isotope Effect and Prereactive Complex Formation. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:8343-51. [DOI: 10.1021/jp405724a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Shannon RJ, Blitz MA, Goddard A, Heard DE. Accelerated chemistry in the reaction between the hydroxyl radical and methanol at interstellar temperatures facilitated by tunnelling. Nat Chem 2013; 5:745-9. [DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2013] [Accepted: 05/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hickson KM, Bergeat A. Low temperature kinetics of unstable radical reactions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:12057-69. [PMID: 22864404 DOI: 10.1039/c2cp41885a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Recent advances in Earth and satellite based observations of molecules in interstellar environments and in planetary atmospheres have highlighted the lack of information regarding many important gas-phase formation mechanisms involving neutral species at low temperatures. Whilst significant progress has been made towards a better understanding of radical-molecule reactions in these regions, the inherent difficulties involved in the investigation of reactions between two unstable radical species have hindered progress in this area. This perspective article provides a brief review of the most common techniques applied to study radical-radical reactions below room temperature, before outlining the developments in our laboratory that have allowed us to extend such measurements to temperatures relevant to astrochemical environments. These developments will be discussed with particular emphasis on our recent investigations of the reactions of atomic nitrogen with diatomic radicals.
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- Kevin M Hickson
- Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, UMR 5255, F-33400 Talence, France.
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Blitz MA, Seakins PW. Laboratory studies of photochemistry and gas phase radical reaction kinetics relevant to planetary atmospheres. Chem Soc Rev 2012; 41:6318-47. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cs35204d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Carr SA, Blitz MA, Seakins PW. Site-specific rate coefficients for reaction of OH with ethanol from 298 to 900 K. J Phys Chem A 2011; 115:3335-45. [PMID: 21443222 DOI: 10.1021/jp200186t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The rate coefficients for reactions of OH with ethanol and partially deuterated ethanols have been measured by laser flash photolysis/laser-induced fluorescence over the temperature range 298-523 K and 5-100 Torr of helium bath gas. The rate coefficient, k(1.1), for reaction of OH with C(2)H(5)OH is given by the expression k(1.1) = 1.06 × 10(-22)T(3.58) exp(1126/T) cm(3) molecule(-1) s(-1), and the values are in good agreement with previous literature. Site-specific rate coefficients were determined from the measured kinetic isotope effects. Over the temperature region 298-523 K abstraction from the hydroxyl site is a minor channel. The reaction is dominated by abstraction of the α hydrogens (92 ± 8)% at 298 K decreasing to (76 ± 9)% with the balance being abstraction at the β position where the errors are 2σ. At higher temperatures decomposition of the CH(2)CH(2)OH product from β abstraction complicates the kinetics. From 575 to 650 K, biexponential decays were observed, allowing estimates to be made for k(1.1) and the fractional production of CH(2)CH(2)OH. Above 650 K, decomposition of the CH(2)CH(2)OH product was fast on the time scale of the measured kinetics and removal of OH corresponds to reaction at the α and OH sites. The kinetics agree (within ±20%) with previous measurements. Evidence suggests that reaction at the OH site is significant at our higher temperatures: 47-53% at 865 K.
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- Scott A Carr
- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Zhou CW, Simmie JM, Curran HJ. Ab initio and kinetic study of the reaction of ketones with ȮH for T = 500–2000 K. Part I: hydrogen-abstraction from H3CC(O)CH3–x(CH3)x, x = 0 ↦ 2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:11175-92. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cp02754e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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