Detection of Aliphatically Bridged Multi-Core Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sooting Flames with Atmospheric-Sampling High-Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Journal Article
·
· Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States). Combustion Research Facility
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Chemical Sciences Division
This paper provides experimental evidence for the chemical structures of aliphatically substituted and bridged polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) species in gas-physe combustion environments. The identification of these single- and multicore aromatic species, which have been hypothesized to be important in PAH growth and soot nucleation, was made possible through a combination of sampling gaseous constituents from an atmospheric pressure inverse coflow diffusion flame of ethylene and high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (MS-MS). In these experiments, the flame-sampled components were ionized using a continuous VUV lamp at 10.0 eV and the ions were subsequently fragmented through collisions with Ar atoms in a collision-induced dissociation (CID) process. The resulting fragment ions, which were separated using a reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer, were used to extract structural information about the sampled aromatic compounds. The high-resolution mass spectra revealed the presence of alkylated single-core aromatic compounds and the fragment ions that were observed correspond to the loss of saturated and unsaturated units containing up to a total of 6 carbon atoms. Furthermore, the aromatic structures that form the foundational building blocks of the larger PAHs were identified to be smaller single-ring and pericondensed aromatic species with repetitive structural features. For demonstrative purposes, details are provided for the CID of molecular ions at masses 202 and 434. Insights into the role of the aliphatically substituted and bridged aromatics in the reaction network of PAH growth chemistry were obtained from spatially resolved measurements of the flame. The experimental results are consistent with a growth mechanism in which alkylated aromatics are oxidized to form pericondensed ring structures or react and recombine with other aromatics to form larger, potentially three-dimensional, aliphatically bridged multicore aromatic hydrocarbons.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1608263
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1639067
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory, Journal Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory Journal Issue: 48 Vol. 122; ISSN 1089-5639
- Publisher:
- American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Molecular elucidating of an unusual growth mechanism for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in confined space
|
journal | February 2020 |
Dimers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: the missing pieces in the soot formation process
|
journal | January 2019 |
Predicting aromatic exciplex fluorescence emission energies
|
journal | January 2019 |
From atoms to aerosols: probing clusters and nanoparticles with synchrotron based mass spectrometry and X-ray spectroscopy
|
journal | January 2020 |
Low-temperature Formation of Carbonaceous Dust Grains from PAHs
|
journal | January 2020 |
Similar Records
Identification of the molecular-weight growth reaction network in counterflow flames of the C3H4 isomers allene and propyne
Molecular Characterization of Organic Content of Soot along the Centerline of a Coflow Diffusion Flame
Journal Article
·
Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020
· Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
·
OSTI ID:1671188
Molecular Characterization of Organic Content of Soot along the Centerline of a Coflow Diffusion Flame
Journal Article
·
Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2014
· Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP, 16(47):25862 - 25875
·
OSTI ID:1167292