Investigation of the O+allyl addition/elimination reaction pathways from the OCH{sub 2}CHCH{sub 2} radical intermediate
- James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States)
- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, 30076 Taiwan (China)
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617 Taiwan (China)
These experiments study the preparation of and product channels resulting from OCH{sub 2}CHCH{sub 2}, a key radical intermediate in the O+allyl bimolecular reaction. The data include velocity map imaging and molecular beam scattering results to probe the photolytic generation of the radical intermediate and the subsequent pathways by which the radicals access the energetically allowed product channels of the bimolecular reaction. The photodissociation of epichlorohydrin at 193.3 nm produces chlorine atoms and c-OCH{sub 2}CHCH{sub 2} radicals; these undergo a facile ring opening to the OCH{sub 2}CHCH{sub 2} radical intermediate. State-selective resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) detection resolves the velocity distributions of ground and spin-orbit excited state chlorine independently, allowing for a more accurate determination of the internal energy distribution of the nascent radicals. We obtain good agreement detecting the velocity distributions of the Cl atoms with REMPI, vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photoionization at 13.8 eV, and electron bombardment ionization; all show a bimodal distribution of recoil kinetic energies. The dominant high recoil kinetic energy feature peaks near 33 kcal/mol. To elucidate the product channels resulting from the OCH{sub 2}CHCH{sub 2} radical intermediate, the crossed laser-molecular beam experiment uses VUV photoionization and detects the velocity distribution of the possible products. The data identify the three dominant product channels as C{sub 3}H{sub 4}O (acrolein)+H, C{sub 2}H{sub 4}+HCO (formyl radical), and H{sub 2}CO (formaldehyde)+C{sub 2}H{sub 3}. A small signal from C{sub 2}H{sub 2}O (ketene) product is also detected. The measured velocity distributions and relative signal intensities at m/e=27, 28, and 29 at two photoionization energies show that the most exothermic product channel, C{sub 2}H{sub 5}+CO, does not contribute significantly to the product branching. The higher internal energy onset of the acrolein+H product channel is consistent with the relative barriers en route to each of these product channels calculated at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVQZ level of theory, although a clean determination of the barrier energy to H+acrolein is precluded by the substantial partitioning into rotational energy during the photolytic production of the nascent radicals. We compare the measured branching fraction to the H+acrolein product channel with a statistical prediction based on the calculated transition states.
- OSTI ID:
- 21106221
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 129, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2966004; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ACROLEIN
BRANCHING RATIO
CHLORINE
DISSOCIATION
ELECTRON BEAMS
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ETHYLENE
EV RANGE 10-100
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FORMALDEHYDE
FORMYL RADICALS
KETENES
KINETIC ENERGY
MOLECULAR BEAMS
PHOTOIONIZATION
PHOTOLYSIS
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VINYL RADICALS