The gas phase oxidation of HCOOH by Cl and NH 2 radicals. Proton coupled electron transfer versus hydrogen atom transfer

The reaction of formic acid (HCOOH) with chlorine atom and amidogen radical (NH 2 ) have been investigated using high level theoretical methods such BH&HLYP, MP2, QCISD, and CCSD(T) with the 6–311 + G(2df,2p), aug-cc-pVTZ, aug-cc-pVQZ and extrapolation to CBS basis sets. The abstraction of the a...

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Autores: Anglada Rull, Josep M., Crehuet, Ramón, Solé-Benet, Albert
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/201023
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/201023
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Atmospheric chemistry
ab-initio calculations
Hydrogen atom transfer
Reaction kinetics
Proton coupled electron transfer
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Sumario:The reaction of formic acid (HCOOH) with chlorine atom and amidogen radical (NH 2 ) have been investigated using high level theoretical methods such BH&HLYP, MP2, QCISD, and CCSD(T) with the 6–311 + G(2df,2p), aug-cc-pVTZ, aug-cc-pVQZ and extrapolation to CBS basis sets. The abstraction of the acidic and formyl hydrogen atoms of the acid by the two radicals has been considered, and the different reactions proceed either by a proton coupled electron transfer (pcet) and hydrogen atom transfer (hat) mechanisms. Our calculated rate constant at 298 K for the reaction with Cl is 1.14 × 10 −13 cm 3 molecule −1 s −1 in good agreement with the experimental value 1.8 ± 0.12/2.0 × 10 −13 cm 3 molecule −1 s −1 and the reaction proceeds exclusively by abstraction of the formyl hydrogen atom, via hat mechanism, producing HOCO+ClH. The calculated rate constant, at 298 K, for the reaction with NH 2 is 1.71 × 10 −15 cm 3 molecule −1 s −1 , and the reaction goes through the abstraction of the acidic hydrogen atom, via a pcet mechanism, leading to the formation of HCOO+NH 3 . © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.