ISSN:
0538-8068
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Physics Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The kinetics of the acetaldehyde pyrolysis have been studied at temperatures from 450° to 525°C, at an acetaldehyde pressure of 176 torr and at 0 to 40 torr of added nitric oxide. The following products were identified and their rates of formation measured: CH4, H2, CO, CO2, C2H4, C2H6, H2O, C3H6, C2H5CHO, CH3COCH3, CH3COOCH=CH2, N2, N2O, HCN, CH3NCO, and C2H5NCO. Acetaldehyde vapor was found to react with nitric oxide slowly in the dark at room temperature, the products being H2O, CH3COOCH3, CO, CO2, N2, NO2, HCN, CH3NO2, and CH3ONO2. The rates of formation of N2 and C2H5NCO depend on how long the CH3CHO-NO mixture is kept at room temperature before pyrolysis; the rates of formation of the other products depend only slightly on the mixing period.The pyrolysis of “clean” CH3CHO-NO mixtures (i.e., the results extrapolated to zero mixing time, which are independent of products formed in the cold reaction) are interpreted as follows: (1) There are two chain carriers, CH3 and CH2CHO, their concentrations being interdependent and influenced by NO in different ways: the CH3 radical is both generated and removed by reactions directly involving NO, whereas CH2CHO is generated only indirectly from CH3 but is also removed by direct reaction with NO. (2) An important mode of initiation by NO is its addition to the carbonyl group with the formation of which is converted into ; this splits off OH with the formation of CH3NCO or CH3 + OCN. (3) Important modes of termination are \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$$ \begin{array}{*{20}c} {{\rm CH}_3 + {\rm NO} \to {\rm CH}_3 {\rm NO} \to {\rm CH}_2 {\rm NOH} \to {\rm HCN} + {\rm H}_2 {\rm O}} \\ {{\rm CH}_{\rm 2} {\rm CHO} + {\rm NO} \to {\rm CH}_2 ({\rm NO}){\rm CHO} \to {\rm CH}({\rm NOH}){\rm CHO} \to {\rm HCN} + {\rm H}_2 {\rm O} + {\rm CO}} \\ \end{array} $$\end{document} The steady-state equations derived from the mechanism are shown to give a good fit to the experimental rate versus [NO] curves and, in particular, explain why there is enhancement of rate by NO at higher CH3CHO pressures and, at lower CH3CHO pressures, inhibition at low [NO] followed by enhancement at higher [NO].The cold reaction is explained in terms of chain-propagating and chain-branching steps resulting from the addition of several NO molecules to CH3CHO and the CH3CO radical. In the “unclean” reaction it is found that the rates of N2 and C2N5NCO formation are increased by CH3NO2, CH3ONO, and CH3ONO2 formed during the cold reaction. A mechanism is proposed, involving the participation of α-nitrosoethyl nitrite, CH3CH(NO)ONO.It is suggested that there are two modes of behavior in pyrolyses in the presence of NO: (1) In the paraffins, ethers, and ketones, the effects are attributed to the addition of NO to a radical with the formation of an oxime-like compound. (2) In the aldehydes and alkenes, where there is a hydrogen atom attached to a double-bonded carbon atom, the behavior is explained in terms of addition of NO to the double bond followed by the formation of an oxime-like species.
Additional Material:
10 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/kin.550020503
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