Oxygen-to-oxygen coupling, direct H-abstraction and oxygen-to-(α)carbon nucleophilic substitution processes have been investigated for both the singlet and triplet self-reaction of C(2)H(5)O(2) radicals at the CCSD(T)/cc-pVDZ//B3LYP/6-311G(2d,2p) level to evaluate the reaction mechanisms, possible products and rate constants. The calculated results show that the title reaction mainly occurs through the singlet oxygen-to-oxygen coupling mechanism with the formation of entrance tetroxide intermediates, and the most dominant product is C(2)H(5)O + HO(2) + CH(3)CHO (P5) generated in channel R5. Beginning from the radical products of P5 (C(2)H(5)O, HO(2)) and reactant (C(2)H(5)O(2)), five secondary reactions HO(2) + HO(2) (a), HO(2) + C(2)H(5)O (b), C(2)H(5)O + C(2)H(5)O (c), HO(2) + C(2)H(5)O(2) (d), and C(2)H(5)O + C(2)H(5)O(2) (e) mainly proceed on the triplet potential energy surface. Among these reactions, (a), (b), and (d) are kinetically favorable because of lower barrier heights. The calculated rate constants of channel R5 between 200 and 295 K are almost independent of the temperature, which is in agreement with the experimental report. With regard to the final products distribution, CH(3)CHO, C(2)H(5)OH, C(2)H(5)OOH, H(2)O(2), and (3)O(2) are predicted to be major, whereas C(2)H(5)OOC(2)H(5) should be in minor amount.
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Molecules
August 2018
College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
The mechanism and kinetics for the reaction of the HO₂ radical with the ethyl (C₂H₅) radical have been investigated theoretically. The electronic structure information of the potential energy surface (PES) is obtained at the MP2/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory, and the single-point energies are refined by the CCSD(T)/6-311+G(3df,2p) level of theory. The kinetics of the reaction with multiple channels have been studied by applying variational transition-state theory (VTST) and Rice⁻Ramsperger⁻Kassel⁻Marcus (RRKM) theory over wide temperature and pressure ranges (T = 220⁻3000 K; P = 1 × 10⁻100 bar).
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January 2018
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
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May 2012
Key Laboratory for Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, China.
Oxygen-to-oxygen coupling, direct H-abstraction and oxygen-to-(α)carbon nucleophilic substitution processes have been investigated for both the singlet and triplet self-reaction of C(2)H(5)O(2) radicals at the CCSD(T)/cc-pVDZ//B3LYP/6-311G(2d,2p) level to evaluate the reaction mechanisms, possible products and rate constants. The calculated results show that the title reaction mainly occurs through the singlet oxygen-to-oxygen coupling mechanism with the formation of entrance tetroxide intermediates, and the most dominant product is C(2)H(5)O + HO(2) + CH(3)CHO (P5) generated in channel R5. Beginning from the radical products of P5 (C(2)H(5)O, HO(2)) and reactant (C(2)H(5)O(2)), five secondary reactions HO(2) + HO(2) (a), HO(2) + C(2)H(5)O (b), C(2)H(5)O + C(2)H(5)O (c), HO(2) + C(2)H(5)O(2) (d), and C(2)H(5)O + C(2)H(5)O(2) (e) mainly proceed on the triplet potential energy surface.
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June 2006
CNRS, Laboratoire de Combustion et Systèmes Réactifs, 1C, Avenue de la Recherche Scientifique, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France.
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Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Olshausenstr. 40, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, Germany.
The overall rate constant for the radical-radical reaction C2H5 + HO2 --> products has been determined at room temperature by means of time-resolved mass spectrometry using a laser photolysis/flow reactor combination. Excimer laser photolysis of gas mixtures containing ethane, hydrogen peroxide, and oxalyl chloride was employed to generate controlled concentrations of C2H5 and HO2 radicals by the fast H abstraction reactions of the primary radicals Cl and OH with C2H6 and H2O2, respectively. By careful adjustments of the radical precursor concentrations, the title reaction could be measured under almost pseudo-first-order conditions with the concentration of HO2 in large excess over that of C2H5.
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