ISSN:
0538-8066
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Physical Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
In earlier work on the room temperature oxidation of C2H2 by O atoms, two distinct sources of methylene radicals have been identified: (i) direct, primary production via channel 1b of the C2H2 + O reaction, and (ii) delayed formation via the secondary reaction 3 involving the products HCCO and H of the other primary channel 1a: Presently, it was confirmed by a detailed sensitivity analysis that the precise shapes of the resulting total methylene concentration-versus-time profiles in C2H2/O systems depend strongly on the k1a/k1b branching ratio. Along that line, the important parameter k1a/k1b was determined from relative CH2 concentration-versus-time profiles measured in a variety of C2H2/O/H systems using Discharge Flow-Molecular Beam sampling Mass Spectrometry techniques (DF-MBMS). The data analysis was carried out by deductive kinetic modelling; the method, as applied to profile shapes, is discussed at length. Via this novel, independent approach, the CH2(3B1) yield of the two-channel C2H2 + O reaction was determined to be k1b/k1 = 0.17 ± 0.08. The indicated 2σ error includes possible systematic errors due to uncertainties in the rate constants of other reactions that influence the shapes of the CH2 profiles. The present result, which translates to an HCCO yield k1a/k1 = 0.83 ± 0.08, is in excellent agreement with other recent determinations. The above mechanism, with the subsequent reactions that it initiates, also reproduces the measured absolute [C2H2], [O], and [H] profiles with an average accuracy of 5%, thus validating the consistency of the C2H2/O/H reaction model put forward here. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Additional Material:
3 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/kin.550260902
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