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Hockey EK, McLane N, Martí C, Duckett L, Osborn DL, Dodson LG. Direct Observation of Gas-Phase Hydroxymethylene: Photoionization and Kinetics Resulting from Methanol Photodissociation. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:14416-14421. [PMID: 38744681 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c03090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
Abstract
Carbene species play an integral role in high-energy chemistry, transition-metal-carbene chemistry, catalysis, photolytic formation of carbohydrates, and possibly even the formation of interstellar sugars. In 1921, "reactive formaldehyde"─now known as hydroxymethylene (HCOH)─was first implicated as an intermediate in photocatalytic processes. However, due to its transient nature, direct observation of HCOH has predominantly been attained using cryogenic isolation methods. As a result, HCOH gas-phase reactivity measurements have been limited. We directly observed HCOH using photoionization spectroscopy following UV photodissociation of methanol. Our measurements show it reacts slowly with O2 at room temperature. This work provides evidence for the formation mechanism of HCOH from CH3OH and its subsequent reactivity under gas-phase reaction conditions.
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- Emily K Hockey
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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Samanta BR, Sutradhar S, Fernando R, Krylov AI, Reisler H. Electronic Structure and Rydberg–Core Interactions in Hydroxycarbene and Methylhydroxycarbene. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:6176-6182. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b04424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Bibek R. Samanta
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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Mauney DT, Mosley JD, Madison LR, McCoy AB, Duncan MA. Infrared spectroscopy and theory of the formaldehyde cation and its hydroxymethylene isomer. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:174303. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4966214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- D. T. Mauney
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Broderick BM, McCaslin L, Moradi CP, Stanton JF, Douberly GE. Reactive intermediates in 4He nanodroplets: Infrared laser Stark spectroscopy of dihydroxycarbene. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:144309. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4917421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2556, USA
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Wang Y, Bowman JM. Bend Excitation Is Predicted to Greatly Accelerate Isomerization of trans-Hydroxymethylene to Formaldehyde in the Deep Tunneling Region. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:124-128. [PMID: 26263100 DOI: 10.1021/jz5022944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
Using a new potential energy surface, based on fitting around 33,000 CCSD(T)-F12/aug-cc-pVTZ energies, a robust set of predictions is made for mode-specific isomerization of trans-hydroxymethylene to formaldehyde in the deep tunneling region. The calculations make use of a recent projection model for mode-specific tunneling based on the rectilinear Q(im) path [ Wang , Y. ; Bowman , J. M. J. Chem. Phys. 2013 , 139 , 154303 ]. The most interesting prediction is a large decrease in the half-life from roughly 5 h for the ground vibrational state to roughly 1.5 min and 1 s by excitation of the fundamental and first overtone of the asymmetric bending normal mode, respectively. The properties of the new PES are described along with variational calculations of low-lying vibrational states of trans- and cis-hydroxymethylene.
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- Yimin Wang
- Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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Rodrigo CP, Sutradhar S, Reisler H. Imaging Studies of Excited and Dissociative States of Hydroxymethylene Produced in the Photodissociation of the Hydroxymethyl Radical. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:11916-25. [DOI: 10.1021/jp505108k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Chirantha P. Rodrigo
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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