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Water catalysis of the reaction between hydroxyl radicals and linear saturated alcohols (ethanol and n-propanol) at 294 K
- Source :
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018, 20 (44), pp.27885-27896. ⟨10.1039/c8cp05411h⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2018.
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Abstract
- The rate coefficients for the reactions of OH with ethanol and n-propanol were determined by a relative method in a smog chamber at 294 K, 1 atm of air or N2 and a wide range of humidity. The rate coefficients for both reactions show a quadratic dependence on the water concentration as in the case of the reaction of OH with methanol (Jara-Toro et al. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 2166). The detailed mechanism responsible for the reaction acceleration was studied theoretically at the uMP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory while the electronic energies of all the structures were refined at the uCCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVDZ level. From these results it is suggested that the catalytic effect of two water molecules is due to two cooperative effects in the reactions between the ROH(H2O) and OH(H2O) equilibrium complexes: (1) an enhanced capture cross-section as a consequence of the larger dipolar moment of the ROH(H2O) and OH(H2O) complexes as compared to those of the free reactants ROH and OH and (2) a strong stabilization of the TSs below the energy of the reactants that leads to a very fast decomposition of the pre-reactive complexes to products with an extremely low probability of dissociation back to the reactants. The tropospheric lifetime of these alcohols is also shown to strongly depend on the humidity, suggesting the need to incorporate this dependence in global atmospheric models. Fil: Jara Toro, Rafael Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba; Argentina Fil: Hernadez, Federico Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba; Argentina Fil: Garavagno, Maria de Los Angeles. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba; Argentina Fil: Taccone, Raul Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba; Argentina Fil: Pino, Gustavo Ariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba; Argentina
- Subjects :
- Físico-Química, Ciencia de los Polímeros, Electroquímica
Radical
Rate coefficients
General Physics and Astronomy
010402 general chemistry
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
Dissociation (chemistry)
Catalysis
chemistry.chemical_compound
0103 physical sciences
Water Catalysis
[CHIM]Chemical Sciences
Molecule
Physics::Chemical Physics
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
[PHYS]Physics [physics]
Ethanol
010304 chemical physics
Ciencias Químicas
Humidity
0104 chemical sciences
Dipole
chemistry
13. Climate action
Physical chemistry
N-propanol
Methanol
CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14639084 and 14639076
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f56886d6aff3d19108d97b8dd3d645c1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp05411h