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Photoinduced oxygen transfer from NO[sub 2] to ethylene in the vicinity of the NO[sub 2] dissociation threshold. A laser photochemical study on reactant pairs isolated in solid argon

Journal Article · · Journal of Physical Chemistry; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/j100204a039· OSTI ID:6853109
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
The wavelength dependence of the photochemistry of C[sub 2]H[sub 4]NO[sub 2] and C[sub 2]D[sub 2]NO[sub 2] paris, isolated in solid Ar, in the range 555-355 nm is reported. Continuous-wave and pulsed dye lasers were used to excite the reactants, and the products were monitored by FT infrared spectroscopy. Acetaldehyde, ethylene oxide, NO, and ethyl nitrite radical were the products observed at wavelengths longer than the 398-nm dissociation threshold of NO[sub 2]. D isotope effects on the branching among these species derived from kinetic analysis of growth curves support our conclusion in previous work that the mechanism involves large-amplitude O transfer from NO[sub 2] to the carbon-to-carbon double bond to yield a transient oxirane biradical. The latter acts as a common precursor of the observed products. A new species, ketene, appears at excitation energies just above the NO[sub 2] dissociation limit (385 and 355 nm). 55 refs., 8 figs., 1 tab.
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
6853109
Journal Information:
Journal of Physical Chemistry; (United States), Journal Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry; (United States) Vol. 96:25; ISSN JPCHAX; ISSN 0022-3654
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English