Communication: Real time observation of unimolecular decay of Criegee intermediates to OH radical products

Fang, Yi; Liu, Fang; Barber, Victoria P.; Klippenstein, Stephen J.; McCoy, Anne B.; Lester, Marsha I.

doi:10.1063/1.4941768

Communication: Real time observation of unimolecular decay of Criegee intermediates to OH radical products

Journal Article · Tue Feb 09 23:00:00 EST 2016 · Journal of Chemical Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4941768· OSTI ID:1350086

Fang, Yi ^[1]; ^[1]; Barber, Victoria P. ^[1]; Klippenstein, Stephen J. ^[2]; McCoy, Anne B. ^[3]; Lester, Marsha I. ^[1]

Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry

In the atmosphere, a dominant loss process for carbonyl oxide intermediates produced from alkene ozonolysis is also an important source of hydroxyl radicals. In this work, the rate of appearance of OH radicals is revealed through direct time-domain measurements following vibrational activation of prototypical methyl-substituted Criegee intermediates under collision-free conditions. Complementary theoretical calculations predict the unimolecular decay rate for the Criegee intermediates in the vicinity of the barrier for 1,4 hydrogen transfer that leads to OH products. Both experiment and theory yield unimolecular decay rates of ca. 10⁸ and 10⁷ s^–1 for syn-CH₃CHOO and (CH₃)₂COO, respectively, at energies near the barrier. Tunneling through the barrier, computed from high level electronic structure theory and experimentally validated, makes a significant contribution to the decay rate. Extension to thermally averaged unimolecular decay of stabilized Criegee intermediates under atmospheric conditions yields rates that are six orders of magnitude slower than those evaluated directly in the barrier region.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1350086

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1237774

Journal Information:: Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 144; ISSN 0021-9606

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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