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Roscoe JM. A kinetic study of the reactions of atomic bromine with the trimethylbenzenes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:28948-28954. [PMID: 37855665 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04030e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
Abstract
This work presents the results of kinetic measurements for the reactions of atomic bromine with the three isomers of trimethylbenzene at temperatures from 295 K to 354 K and at pressures close to atmospheric. The atomic bromine was produced by photolysis of Br2 in a thermostated Pyrex chamber as described in our previous work. The reactants were present as dilute mixtures in argon with Br2 in sufficient excess to scavenge the free radical products of the initiation step. Chemical analysis was by gas chromatography and the rate coefficients were calculated from the chromatographic results using the relative rate method. The experimentally measured temperature dependence of the rate coefficients for the reactions of Br with the trimethylbenzenes is given in the units cm3 molec.-1 s-1 by: 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene + Br, log10(k) = -9.57 ± 0.43 - (996 ± 134)/T; 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene + Br, log10(k) = -9.74 ± 0.29 - (968 ± 91)/T; 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene + Br, log10(k) = -9.87 ± 0.26 - (1079 ± 85)/T. The enthalpies and entropies of activation for these reactions are compared to those for the reactions of Br with toluene and the xylenes.
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Affiliation(s)
- John M Roscoe
- Department of Chemistry, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, B4P 2R6, Canada.
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Joy F, Rajakumar B. Photo-oxidation reaction of tert-butyl chloride with OH radicals and Cl atoms in the troposphere and its implications. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:7901-7916. [PMID: 36861338 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03503k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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In the present work, the temperature-dependent kinetics for the reaction of tert-butyl chloride (TBC) with OH radicals and Cl atoms were determined experimentally between 268 and 363 K, and theoretically between 200 and 400 K. Pulsed laser photolysis-laser induced fluorescence (PLP-LIF) and relative rate (RR) methods were used to obtain the rate coefficients for the reaction of TBC with OH radicals and Cl atoms, respectively. The Arrhenius equations and were obtained for both reactions based on the experimentally measured rate coefficients. The theoretical rate coefficients were determined at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ//M06-2X/6-31+G(d,p) level for the reaction of TBC with OH radicals and at the CCSD(T)/cc-pVDZ//MP2/6-311+G(d,p) level for the reaction with Cl atoms with incorporated tunnelling corrections. The product analysis of both reactions in the presence of oxygen (O2) was carried out, and a degradation pathway for TBC was proposed. The potential implications of these reactions in the atmosphere were discussed using the obtained kinetic parameters.
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- Fredy Joy
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600036, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600036, India. .,Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600036, India
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Ab initio characterization of the potential energy profiles for the multi-channel reactions: H/Cl + CH3OH. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2022.113906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Giri BR, Farooq A, Szőri M, Roscoe JM. The kinetics of the reactions of Br atoms with the xylenes: an experimental and theoretical study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:4843-4858. [PMID: 35080539 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03740d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This work reports the temperature dependence of the rate coefficients for the reactions of atomic bromine with the xylenes that are determined experimentally and theoretically. The experiments were carried out in a Pyrex chamber equipped with fluorescent lamps to measure the rate coefficients at temperatures from 295 K to 346 K. Experiments were made at several concentrations of oxygen to assess its potential kinetic role under atmospheric conditions and to validate comparison of our rate coefficients with those obtained by others using air as the diluent. Br2 was used to generate Br atoms photolytically. The relative rate method was used to obtain the rate coefficients for the reactions of Br atoms with the xylenes. The reactions of Br with both toluene and diethyl ether (DEE) were used as reference reactions where the loss of the organic reactants was measured by gas chromatography. The rate coefficient for the reaction of Br with diethyl ether was also measured in the same way over the same temperature range with toluene as the reference reactant. The rate coefficients were independent of the concentration of O2. The experimentally determined temperature dependence of the rate coefficients of these reactions can be given in the units cm3 molecule-1 s-1 by: o-xylene + Br, log10(k) = (-10.03 ± 0.35) - (921 ± 110)/T; m-xylene + Br, log10(k) = (-10.78 ± 0.09) - (787 ± 92/T); p-xylene + Br, log10(k) = (-9.98 ± 0.39) - (956 ± 121)/T; diethyl ether + Br, log10(k) = (-7.69 ± 0.55) - (1700 ± 180)/T). This leads to the following rate coefficients, in the units of cm3 molecule-1 s-1, based on our experimental measurements: o-xylene + Br, k(298 K) = 7.53 × 10-14; m-xylene + Br, k(298 K) = 3.77 × 10-14; p-xylene + Br, k(298 K) = 6.43 × 10-14; diethyl ether + Br, k(298 K) = 4.02 × 10-14. Various ab initio methods including G3, G4, CCSD(T)/cc-pV(D,T)Z//MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ and CCSD(T)/cc-pV(D,T)Z//B3LYP/cc-pVTZ levels of theory were employed to gain detailed information about the kinetics as well as the thermochemical quantities. Among the ab initio methods, the G4 method performed remarkably well in describing the kinetics and thermochemistry of the xylenes + Br reaction system. Our theoretical calculations revealed that the reaction of Br atoms with the xylenes proceeds via a complex forming mechanism in an overall endothermic reaction. The rate determining step is the intramolecular rearrangement of the pre-reactive complex leading to the post-reactive complex. After lowering the relative energy of the corresponding transition state by less than 1.5 kJ mol-1 for this step in the reaction of each of the xylenes with Br, the calculated rate coefficients are in very good agreement with the experimental data.
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- Binod R Giri
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Clean Combustion Research Center, Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Clean Combustion Research Center, Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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- Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Miskolc, Egyetemváros A/4, H-3515 Miskolc, Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, B4P 2R6, Canada.
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Giri BR, Roscoe JM, Szőri M, Farooq A. A theoretical kinetic study on the reaction of atomic bromine with toluene. INT J CHEM KINET 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/kin.21451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Binod Raj Giri
- Clean Combustion Research Center Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry Acadia University Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada
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- Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering University of Miskolc Miskolc Hungary
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- Clean Combustion Research Center Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal Saudi Arabia
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Frazee WJ, Roscoe JM. Temperature dependence of the reactions of Cl with toluene and the xylenes. INT J CHEM KINET 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/kin.21278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- W. James Frazee
- Department of ChemistryAcadia University Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada
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- Department of ChemistryAcadia University Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada
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Antonov IO, Zádor J, Rotavera B, Papajak E, Osborn DL, Taatjes CA, Sheps L. Pressure-Dependent Competition among Reaction Pathways from First- and Second-O2 Additions in the Low-Temperature Oxidation of Tetrahydrofuran. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:6582-95. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b05411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Ivan O. Antonov
- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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Giri BR, Lo JMH, Roscoe JM, Alquaity ABS, Farooq A. Theoretical Study of the Reaction Kinetics of Atomic Bromine with Tetrahydropyran. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:933-42. [DOI: 10.1021/jp510987q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Binod Raj Giri
- Clean
Combustion Research Center, Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Al-Kindi (Bldg.
5) 4216-WS05, Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2L 2K8, Canada
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- Department
of Chemistry, Acadia University, 6 University Avenue, Wolfville, Nova Scotia B4P 2R6, Canada
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- Clean
Combustion Research Center, Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Al-Kindi (Bldg.
5) 4216-WS05, Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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- Clean
Combustion Research Center, Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Al-Kindi (Bldg.
5) 4216-WS05, Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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Begum S, Subramanian R. Reaction of chlorine radical with tetrahydrofuran: a theoretical investigation on mechanism and reactivity in gas phase. J Mol Model 2014; 20:2262. [PMID: 24867438 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-014-2262-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Accepted: 04/23/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Reaction of chlorine (Cl) radical with heterocyclic saturated ether, tetrahydrofuran has been studied. The detailed reactivity and mechanism of this reaction is analyzed using hybrid density functional theory (DFT), B3LYP and BB1K methods, and aug-cc-pVTZ basis set. To explore the mechanism of the reaction of tetrahydrofuran with Cl radical, four possible sites of hydrogen atom (H) abstraction pathways in tetrahydrofuran were analyzed. The barrier height and rate constants are calculated for the four H-abstraction channels. The BB1K calculated rate constant for α-axial H-abstraction is comparable with the experimentally determined rate constant. It reflects that α-axial H-abstraction is the main degradation pathway of tetrahydrofuran with Cl radical. DFT-based reactivity descriptors are also calculated and these values describe α-axial H-abstraction as the main reaction channel.
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- Samiyara Begum
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India, 800013
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Alwe HD, Walawalkar M, Sharma A, Pushpa KK, Dhanya S, Naik PD. Rate Coefficients for the Gas-Phase Reactions of Chlorine Atoms with Cyclic Ethers at 298 K. INT J CHEM KINET 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/kin.20765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- H. D. Alwe
- Radiation & Photochemistry Division; Bhabha Atomic Research Centre; Trombay; Mumbai; 400 085; India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division; Bhabha Atomic Research Centre; Trombay; Mumbai; 400 085; India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division; Bhabha Atomic Research Centre; Trombay; Mumbai; 400 085; India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division; Bhabha Atomic Research Centre; Trombay; Mumbai; 400 085; India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division; Bhabha Atomic Research Centre; Trombay; Mumbai; 400 085; India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division; Bhabha Atomic Research Centre; Trombay; Mumbai; 400 085; India
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