Infrared Chemiluminescence Study of the Reaction of Hydroxyl Radical with Formamide and the Secondary Unimolecular Reaction of Chemically Activated Carbamic Acid

Autor: Donald W. Setser, N. I. Butkovskaya
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122:3735-3746
ISSN: 1520-5215
1089-5639
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01512
Popis: Reactions of OH and OD radicals with NH2CHO and ND2CHO were studied by Fourier transform infrared emission spectroscopy of the product molecules from a fast-flow reactor at 298 K. Vibrational distributions of the HOD and H2O molecules from the primary reactions with the C–H bond were obtained by computer simulation of the emission spectra. The vibrational distributions resemble those for other direct H atom abstraction reactions, such as with acetaldehyde. The highest observed level gives an estimate of the C–H bond dissociation energy in formamide of 90.5 ± 1.3 kcal mol–1. Observation of CO2, ammonia, and secondary water chemiluminescence gave evidence that recombination of OH and NH2CO forms carbamic acid (NH2COOH) with excitation energy of 103 kcal mol–1, which decomposes through two pathways forming either NH3 + CO2 or H2O + HNCO. The branching fraction for ammonia formation was estimated to be 2–3 times larger than formation of water. This observation was confirmed by RRKM calculation of the decompos...
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