ISSN:
0538-8066
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Physical Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Relative rate coefficients for the reaction of acetyl (CH3CO) radicals with O2 (k4) and Cl2 (k7) have been obtained at 298 K and 228 K as a function of total pressure, using FTIR/environmental chamber techniques. Measured values of k4/k7 were placed on an absolute basis using k7=2.8×10-11 exp(-47/T) cm3 molec-1 s-1. At 298 K, the value of k4 is constant ((7±2)×10-13 cm3 molec-1 s-1) at pressures from 0.1 to 2 torr, then increases to a high pressure limiting value of (3.2±0.6)×10-12 cm3 molec-1 s-1, which is approached at pressures above 300 torr. At 228 K, the low-pressure value of k4 increases by about 20-30%, while the high pressure value remains unchanged. Experiments designed to elucidate the products of reaction (4) as a function of pressure at 298 K indicate that the reaction occurs via a concerted mechanism in which CH3CO radicals combine with O2 to give an excited acetylperoxy radical (CH3COO2*) which is increasingly stabilized at high pressure at the expense of a low pressure decomposition channel. The yield of acetylperoxy radicals from reaction (4) decreases from 〉95% at pressures above 100 torr, to about 90% at 60 torr, and 50% at 6 torr. Indirect evidence for formation of OH radicals from the low pressure decomposition is presented, although the carbon-containing coproduct(s) of this channel could not be identified. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 29: 655-663, 1997.
Additional Material:
3 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
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