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Marks JH, Bai X, Nikolayev AA, Gong Q, Zhu C, Kleimeier NF, Turner AM, Singh SK, Wang J, Yang J, Pan Y, Yang T, Mebel AM, Kaiser RI. Methanetriol─Formation of an Impossible Molecule. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:12174-12184. [PMID: 38629886 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c02637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
Abstract
Orthocarboxylic acids─organic molecules carrying three hydroxyl groups at the same carbon atom─have been distinguished as vital reactive intermediates by the atmospheric science and physical (organic) chemistry communities as transients in the atmospheric aerosol cycle. Predicted short lifetimes and their tendency to dehydrate to a carboxylic acid, free orthocarboxylic acids, signify one of the most elusive classes of organic reactive intermediates, with even the simplest representative methanetriol (CH(OH)3)─historically known as orthoformic acid─not previously been detected experimentally. Here, we report the first synthesis of the previously elusive methanetriol molecule in low-temperature mixed methanol (CH3OH) and molecular oxygen (O2) ices subjected to energetic irradiation. Supported by electronic structure calculations, methanetriol was identified in the gas phase upon sublimation via isomer-selective photoionization reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometry combined with isotopic substitution studies and the detection of photoionization fragments. The first synthesis and detection of methanetriol (CH(OH)3) reveals its gas-phase stability as supported by a significant barrier hindering unimolecular decomposition. These findings progress our fundamental understanding of the chemistry and chemical bonding of methanetriol, hydroxyperoxymethane (CH3OOOH), and hydroxyperoxymethanol (CH2(OH)OOH), which are all prototype molecules in the oxidation chemistry of the atmosphere.
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- Joshua H Marks
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, 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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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
- W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States
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Győri T, Czakó G. A comprehensive benchmark ab initio survey of the stationary points and products of the OH· + CH 3OH system. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:034301. [PMID: 36681627 DOI: 10.1063/5.0133978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Reactions between methanol and the hydroxyl radical are of significant interest for combustion-, atmospheric-, and astrochemistry. While the two primary product channels (the formation of H2O with either CH3O· or ·CH2OH) have been the subject of numerous studies, the possibility of other products has seen little attention. Here, we present a comprehensive thermochemical survey of the stationary points and plausible products of the reaction, featuring 29 geometries optimized at the UCCSD(T)-F12b/aug-cc-pVTZ level, followed by accurate composite ab initio computations for all stationary points (including ·CH2OH dissociation and isomerization) and five product channels, with a detailed evaluation of basis set convergence and efficiency. The computations reveal that the formation of methanediol and the hydroxymethoxy radical is thermodynamically favorable and the endothermicity of formaldehyde formation is low enough to be a plausible product channel. We also observe unexpectedly large energy deviations between the partially-spin-adapted ROHF-RCCSD(T) method and ROHF-UCCSD(T) as well as between UHF-UCCSDT(Q) and ROHF-UCCSDT(Q) results.
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- Tibor Győri
- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary
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Toumi I, Dalbouha S, Al-Mogren MM, Yazidi O, Jaïdane NE, Carvajal M, Senent ML. Theoretical Spectroscopic Study of Two Ketones of Atmospheric Interest: Methyl Glyoxal (CH 3COCHO) and Methyl Vinyl Ketone (CH 3COCH═CH 2). J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:7230-7241. [PMID: 36178377 PMCID: PMC9574920 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c05653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Revised: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Two ketones of atmospheric interest, methyl glyoxal and methyl vinyl ketone, are studied using explicitly correlated coupled cluster theory and core-valence correlation-consistent basis sets. The work focuses on the far-infrared region. At the employed level of theory, the rotational constants can be determined to within a few megahertz of the experimental data. Both molecules present two conformers, trans/cis and antiperiplanar (Ap)/synperiplanar (Sp), respectively. trans-Methyl glyoxal and Ap-methyl vinyl ketone are the preferred structures. cis-Methyl glyoxal is a secondary minimum of very low stability, which justifies the unavailability of experimental data in this form. In methyl vinyl ketone, the two conformers are almost isoenergetic, but the interconversion implies a relatively high torsional barrier of 1798 cm-1. A very low methyl torsional barrier was estimated for trans-methyl glyoxal (V3 = 273.6 cm-1). Barriers of 429.6 and 380.7 cm-1 were computed for Ap- and Sp-methyl vinyl ketone. Vibrational second-order perturbation theory was applied to determine the rovibrational parameters. The far-infrared region was explored using a variational procedure of reduced dimensionality. For trans-methyl glyoxal, the ground vibrational state was estimated to split by 0.067 cm-1, and the two low excited energy levels (1 0) and (0 1) were found to lie at 89.588 cm-1/88.683 cm-1 (A2/E) and 124.636 cm-1/123.785 cm-1 (A2/E). For Ap- and Sp-methyl vinyl ketone, the ground vibrational state splittings were estimated to be 0.008 and 0.017 cm-1, respectively.
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- Insaf Toumi
- Laboratoire
de Spectroscopie Atomique Moléculaire et Applications, Faculté
des Sciences de Tunis, Université
de Tunis El Manar, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire
de Spectroscopie, Modélisation Moléculaire, Matériaux,
Nanomatériaux, Eau et Environnement, LS3MN2E/CERNE2D, Faculté
des Sciences Rabat, Université Mohammed
V de Rabat, BP 1014 Rabat, Morocco
- Laboratoire
de Chimie Organique et de Chimie Physique, Equipe de recherche: Modélisation
Moléculaire, Matériaux et Environnement, Département
de chimie, Faculté des Sciences d’Agadir, Université Ibn Zohr d’Agadir, BP 8106 Agadir, Morocco
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- Chemistry
Department, Faculty of Science, King Saud
University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia
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- Laboratoire
de Spectroscopie Atomique Moléculaire et Applications, Faculté
des Sciences de Tunis, Université
de Tunis El Manar, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia
- Institut
Préparatoire aux Etudes d’Ingénieurs el Manar, Université de Tunis El Manar, BP 244, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire
de Spectroscopie Atomique Moléculaire et Applications, Faculté
des Sciences de Tunis, Université
de Tunis El Manar, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Departamento
de Ciencias Integradas, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Física,
Matemática y Computación, Unidad Asociada GIFMAN, CSIC-UHU, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
- Instituto
Universitario Carlos I de Física Teórica y Computacional, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento
de Química y Física Teóricas, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada
GIFMAN, CSIC-UHU, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
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