Atmospheric Reaction of Cl + Methacrolein: A Theoretical Study on the Mechanism, and Pressure- and Temperature-Dependent Rate Constants
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- 作者：Cuihong Sun ; Baoen Xu ; Shaowen Zhang
- 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：May 22, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：118
- 期：20
- 页码：3541-3551
- 全文大小：543K
- 年卷期：v.118,no.20(May 22, 2014)
- ISSN：1520-5215
文摘
Methacrolein is a major degradation product of isoprene, the reaction of methacrolein with Cl atoms may play some roles in the degradation of isoprene where these species are relatively abundant. However, the energetics and kinetics of this reaction, which govern the reaction branching, are still not well understood so far. In the present study, two-dimensional potential energy surfaces were constructed to analyze the minimum energy path of the barrierless addition process between Cl and the C鈺怌 double bond of methacrolein, which reveals that the terminal addition intermediate is directly formed from the addition reaction. The terminal addition intermediate can further yield different products among which the reaction paths abstracting the aldehyde hydrogen atom and the methyl hydrogen atom are dominant reaction exits. The minimum reaction path for the direct aldehydic hydrogen atom abstraction is also obtained. The reaction kinetics was calculated by the variational transition state theory in conjunction with the master equation method. From the theoretical model we predicted that the overall rate constant of the Cl + methacrolein reaction at 297 K and atmospheric pressure is koverall = 2.3脳 10鈥?0 cm3 molecule鈥? s鈥?, and the branching ratio of the aldehydic hydrogen abstraction is about 12%. The reaction is pressure dependent at P < 10 Torr with the high pressure limit at about 100 Torr. The calculated results could well account for the experimental observations.