Evaporation of water and uptake of HCl and HBr through hexanol films at the surface of supercooled sulfuric acid

Vacuum evaporation and molecular beam scattering experiments have been used to monitor the loss of water and dissolution of HCl and HBr in deuterated sulfuric acid at 213 K containing 0 to 100 mM hexanol. The addition of 1-hexanol to the acid creates a surface film of hexyl species. This film becomes more compact with decreasing acidity, ranging from approximately 62% to approximately 68% of maximum packing on 68 to 56 wt % D(2)SO(4), respectively. D(2)O evaporation from 68 wt % acid remains unaltered by the hexyl film, where it is most porous, but is impeded by approximately 20% from 56 and 60 wt % acid. H --> D exchange experiments further indicate that the hexyl film on 68 wt % acid enhances conversion of HCl and HBr into DCl and DBr, which is interpreted as an increase in HCl and HBr entry into the bulk acid. For this permeable hexyl film, the hydroxyl groups of surface hexanol molecules may assist uptake by providing extra sites for HCl and HBr hydrogen bonding and dissociation. In contrast, HCl --> DCl exchange in 60 wt % D(2)SO(4) at first rises with hexyl surface coverage but then drops back to the bare acid value as the hexyl species pack more tightly. HCl entry is actually diminished by the hexyl film on 56 wt % acid, where the film is most compact. These experiments reveal a transition from a porous hexanol film on 68 wt % sulfuric acid that enhances HCl and HBr uptake to one on 56 wt % acid that slightly impedes HCl and D(2)O transport.     

Evaporation of water through butanol films at the surface of supercooled sulfuric acid

The evaporation of water was monitored from 60, 64, and 68 wt % D(2)SO(4) at 213 K containing 0-0.18 M 1-butanol. Measurements were performed in vacuum using a mass spectrometer to record the velocities and relative fluxes of the desorbing D(2)O. In addition, the surface activity of butanol in the acid was characterized by hyperthermal argon atom scattering in conjunction with surface tension and butanol evaporation measurements. The segregated butyl species reach surface concentrations of approximately 4 x 10(14) cm(-2) (approximately 80% surface coverage) at 0.18 M bulk concentration. We find that the butyl films do not impede the evaporation of D(2)O from the acid to within the 5% uncertainty of the measurements. This result implies that small, soluble surfactants such as butanol form porous films that will not alter the growth or shrinkage of supercooled sulfuric acid droplets in the atmosphere.     

The inhibition of N2O5 hydrolysis in sulfuric acid by 1-butanol and 1-hexanol surfactant coatings

Gas-liquid scattering experiments are used to measure the fraction of N2O5 molecules that are converted to HNO3 after colliding with 72 wt % H2SO4 containing 1-hexanol or 1-butanol at 216 K. These alcohols segregate to the surface of the acid, with saturation coverages estimated to be 60% of a close-packed monolayer for 1-hexanol and 44% of a close-packed monolayer for 1-butanol. We find that the alkyl films reduce the conversion of N2O5 to HNO3 from 0.15 on bare acid to 0.06 on the hexyl-coated acid and to 0.10 on the butyl-coated acid. The entry of HCl and HBr, however, is enhanced by the hexanol and butanol films. The hydrolysis of N2O5 may be inhibited because the alkyl chains restrict the transport of this large molecule and because the alcohol OH groups dilute the surface region, suppressing reaction between N2O5 and near-interfacial H3O+ or H2O. In contrast, the interfacial alcohol OH groups provide additional binding sites for HCl and HBr and help initiate ionization. These and previous scattering experiments indicate that short-chain alcohol surfactants impede or enhance sulfuric acid-mediated reactions in ways that depend on the chain length, liquid phase acidity, and nature of the gas molecule.     

Collisions of DCl with pure and salty glycerol: enhancement of interfacial D --> H exchange by dissolved NaI

The fate of DCl molecules striking pure glycerol and a 2.6 M NaI-glycerol solution is investigated using scattering, uptake, and residence time measurements. We find that dissolved Na+ and I- ions alter every gas-liquid pathway from the moment of contact of DCl with the surface to its eventual emergence as HCl. In particular, the salt enhances both trapping-desorption of DCl and interfacial DCl --> HCl exchange at the expense of DCl entry into the bulk solution. The reduced entry and enhanced desorption of thermalized DCl molecules are interpreted by assuming that Na+ and I- ions bind to interfacial OH groups and tie up surface sites that would otherwise capture incoming DCl molecules. These ion-glycerol interactions may also be responsible for enhancing interfacial D --> H exchange by disrupting the interfacial hydrogen bond network that carries the newly formed H+ ion away from its Cl- pair. This disruption may increase the fraction of interfacial Cl- and H+ that recombine and desorb immediately as HCl before the ions separate and diffuse deeply into the bulk.     

Long-lived metastable anions of hydrogen halides

We search for narrow resonances in cross-sections for electron collisions with HCl, DCl, HBr and DBr molecules, calculated with the nonlocal resonance model. Narrow resonances corresponding to long-lived metastable states of anionic molecules are indeed found in both elastic and vibrational excitation cross-sections. The largest lifetime τ = 0.11 ms is predicted for HBr⁻ with rotational quantum number J = 20. For HCl we find maximum τ = 0.6 ns for J = 22 and τ = 0.6 μs for J = 33 in DCl. A surprising isotope effect is found for DBr, where the largest lifetime is τ = 1.5μs, i.e., much smaller than for HBr.     

Laser spectroscopic excitation function and reaction threshold studies of the H + DCl --> HCl + D gas-phase isotope exchange reaction

The dynamics of the gas-phase hydrogen atom exchange reaction H + DCl --> HCl + D were studied using the pulsed laser photolysis/laser induced fluorescence "pump-and-probe" method. Laser photolysis of H2S at 222 nm was used to generate nonequilibrium distributions of translationally excited hydrogen atoms at high dilution in a flowing moderator gas (Ar)/reagent (DCl) mixture. H and D atoms were detected with sub-Doppler resolution via Lyman-alpha laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy, which allowed the measurement of the line shapes of the moderated H atom Doppler profiles as well as the concentration of the D atoms produced in the H + DCl --> HCl + D reaction. From the measured H atom Doppler profiles, the time evolution of the initially generated nascent nonequilibrium H atom speed distribution toward its room-temperature thermal equilibrium form was determined. In this way, the excitation function and the reaction threshold (E0 = 0.65 +/- 0.13 eV) for the H + DCl --> HCl + D reaction could be determined from the measured nonequilibrium D atom formation rates and single collision absolute reaction cross-section values of 0.12 +/- 0.04 A2 and 0.45 +/- 0.11 A2 measured at reagent collision energies of 1.0 and 1.4 eV, respectively.     

Heterogeneous interaction of N2O5 with HCl doped H2SO4 under stratospheric conditions: ClNO2 and Cl2 yields

The reaction of dinitrogen pentoxide, N2O5, with hydrogen chloride, HCl, in sulfuric acid solutions was studied at temperatures and compositions relevant to the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere. Experiments were performed using a rotating wetted wall flow tube reactor coupled to a chemical ionization mass spectrometer for the gas-phase detection of reactants (N2O5 and HCl) and products (nitryl chloride, ClNO2, and Cl2) using I– as the reagent ion. Uptake coefficients, γ, were measured under stratospheric conditions: 205 < T < 225 K; 50 and 60 wt % H2SO4 solutions; 5.8 × 10(–5) < [HCl]liq < 0.1 M. Uptake coefficients of N2O5 on pure H2SO4/H2O (50 and 60 wt % H2SO4) and HCl-doped H2SO4 were found to be independent of temperature and sulfuric acid composition (weight percent of H2SO4 and HCl concentration) consistent with previous studies. ClNO2 was observed to be a major gas-phase product with its yield strongly dependent on the liquid-phase HCl concentration (5.8 × 10(–5) to 0.1 M HCl) and with a maximum yield of nearly unity at 0.005 M HCl in both 50 and 60 wt % sulfuric acid solutions. The Cl2 yield was <1% under all conditions studied. ClNO2 production was attributed to the heterogeneous reaction of NO2(+)(aq), or H2NO3(+)(aq) (formed in the dissociative ionization of N2O5), with Cl–. The variation of the ClNO2 yield with HCl concentration was attributed to the competition between the reaction of NO2(+)(aq), or H2NO3(+)(aq) with Cl– and H2O. Using our measured yields as a function of HCl concentrations in 50 and 60 wt % H2SO4 solutions at different temperatures, we calculated the variation of the ClNO2 yield under stratospheric conditions. The atmospheric implications of these findings were examined using a 2D atmospheric model. The contribution of this chemistry to ozone depletion was found to be a minor process under nonvolcanic background aerosol levels.     

Molecular beam studies of HCl dissolution and dissociation in cold salty water

Gas-liquid scattering experiments are used to explore collisions and reactions of HCl and DCl with 12 mol% LiBr solutions of H(2)O and D(2)O at 208-218 K. These ～6 M aqueous salt solutions have vapor pressures just below 0.01 Torr, requiring special consideration of the effects of gas-vapor collisions. We find that impinging HCl molecules readily equilibrate on the surface of the solution even at incident energies of 90 kJ mol(-1). Approximately 90% of the thermalized HCl molecules dissolve and dissociate for long times in the cold salty solution, while the remaining 10% desorb from the surface intact. There is no evidence for rapid, interfacial conversion of HCl into DCl, in striking contrast to previous observations of distinct submicrosecond DCl→HCl exchange in collisions of DCl with salty glycerol at 292 K. These results indicate that cold salty water efficiently captures impinging HCl molecules and suppresses interfacial proton exchange, most likely because of the long interaction times of the HCl molecules in contact with the cold surface and because of facile transport of H(+) and Cl(-) from the interfacial region into the bulk solution.     

Kinetic study of the isotope exchange reactions of malonic acid and its derivatives in various acidic D2O media using 1H NMR spectroscopy. Implication in the Belousov‐Zhabotinsky reaction

The kinetics of the isotope exchange reactions of RCH(COOH)₂ (RH, D, Me, Et, Bu, and Ph) in D₂O solution were studied by using ¹H NMR spectroscopy. It was observed that the rate of isotope exchange reaction was inhibited by the presence of 1 M of DNO₃, DCl, DBr or D₂SO₄ and catalyzed by the presence of 4 M of D₂SO₄. No inhibition effect was observed in the case of D₃PO₄. The effect of inorganic acids follows the order of D₃PO₄>D₂SO₄ ≫ (DNO₃, DCl, DBr). The conjugated base (RCH(COOD)(COO⁻)) of RCH(COOD)₂ plays an important role in the isotope exchange reaction. The presence of deuterium ion suppresses the generation of RCH(COOD)(COO⁻) ion from RCH(COOD)₂ and inhibits the rate of isotope exchange. In general, the order of reactivity of RCH(COOH)₂ toward isotope exchange with deuterium atom is RPh>(H, Br)>Me>(Et, Bu). © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 31: 455–461, 1999     

Construction and calibration of an instrument for three-dimensional ion imaging

We describe a new instrument based on a delay-line detector for imaging the complete three-dimensional velocity distribution of photoionized products from photoinitiated reactions. Doppler-free [2+1] resonantly enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) of H and D atoms formed upon photolysis of HBr and DBr in the range 203 nm < or = lambda photolysis < or = 243 nm yields radial speeds measured to be accurate within 1% of those calculated. The relative speed resolution is about 5% and limited by photoionization recoil broadening. A relative speed resolution of 3.4% is obtained for [3+1] REMPI, which minimizes the ionization recoil. We also determine the branching ratio between ground-state and spin-orbit-excited product channels and their associated anisotropies. We find that DBr photolysis dynamics differs slightly from its HBr counterpart.     

A calorimetric study on the low temperature dynamics of doped ice V and its reversible phase transition to hydrogen ordered ice XIII

Doped ice V samples made from solutions containing 0.01 M HCl (DCl), HF (DF), or KOH (KOD) in H(2)O (D(2)O) were slow-cooled from 250 to 77 K at 0.5 GPa. The effect of the dopant on the hydrogen disorder --> order transition and formation of hydrogen ordered ice XIII was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) with samples recovered at 77 K. DSC scans of acid-doped samples are consistent with a reversible ice XIII <--> ice V phase transition at ambient pressure, showing an endothermic peak on heating due to the hydrogen ordered ice XIII --> disordered ice V phase transition, and an exothermic peak on subsequent cooling due to the ice V --> ice XIII phase transition. The equilibrium temperature (T(o)) for the ice V <--> ice XIII phase transition is 112 K for both HCl doped H(2)O and DCl doped D(2)O. From the maximal enthalpy change of 250 J mol(-1) on the ice XIII --> ice V phase transition and T(o) of 112 K, the change in configurational entropy for the ice XIII --> ice V transition is calculated as 2.23 J mol(-1) K(-1) which is 66% of the Pauling entropy. For HCl, the most effective dopant, the influence of HCl concentration on the formation of ice XIII was determined: on decreasing the concentration of HCl from 0.01 to 0.001 M, its effectiveness is only slightly lowered. However, further HCl decrease to 0.0001 M drastically lowered its effectiveness. HF (DF) doping is less effective in inducing formation of ice XIII than HCl (DCl) doping. On heating at a rate of 5 K min(-1), kinetic unfreezing starts in pure ice V at approximately 132 K, whereas in acid doped ice XIII it starts at about 105 K due to acceleration of reorientation of water molecules. KOH doping does not lead to formation of hydrogen ordered ice XIII, a result which is consistent with our powder neutron diffraction study (C. G. Salzmann, P. G. Radaelli, A. Hallbrucker, E. Mayer, J. L. Finney, Science, 2006, 311, 1758). We further conjecture whether or not ice XIII has a stable region in the water/ice phase diagram, and on a metastable triple point where ice XIII, ice V and ice II are in equilibrium.     

Determination of gaseous acidic compounds by measuring fluorescence after their reaction with tetra-substituted amino aluminum phthalocyanine

Based on the fluorescence enhancement of a red-region fluorescent dye, tetrasubstituted amino aluminum phthalocyanine (TAAlPc), in strongly acidic medium, a new method was developed for the detection of four strong acids (HCl, HBr, HNO(3) and H(2)SO(4)). Under optimal conditions the linear ranges of the calibration curves were 0.04-0.67 mol/l (HCl), 0.04-0.67 mol/l (HBr), 0.04-0.80 mol/l (HNO(3)) and 0.02-0.80 mol/l (H(2)SO(4)), respectively. The detection limits were 0.007 mol/l for HCl, 0.006 mol/l for HBr, 0.005 mol/l for HNO(3) and 0.007 mol/l H(2)SO(4.) This method has been applied to the analyses of four artificial samples with satisfactory results.     

Effective diffusion coefficients for methanol in sulfuric acid solutions measured by Raman spectroscopy

The diffusion of methanol into 0-96.5 wt % sulfuric acid solutions was followed using Raman spectroscopy. Because methanol reacts to form protonated methanol (CH 3OH 2 (+)) and methyl hydrogen sulfate in H 2SO 4 solutions, the reported diffusion coefficients, D, are effective diffusion coefficients that include all of the methyl species diffusing into H 2SO 4. The method was first verified by measuring D for methanol into water. The value obtained here, D = (1.4 +/- 0.6) x 10 (-5) cm (2)/s, agrees well with values found in the literature. The values of D in 39.2-96.5 wt % H 2SO 4 range from (0.11-0.3) x 10 (-5) cm (2)/s, with the maximum value of D occurring for 61.6 wt % H 2SO 4. The effective diffusion coefficients do not vary systematically with the viscosity of the solutions, suggesting that the speciation of both methanol and sulfuric acid may be important in determining these transport coefficients.     

合成乳酸正丁酯的主要催化剂述评

综述聚氯乙烯—三氯化铁树脂、强酸性阳离子交换树脂、氨基磺酸、甲基磺酸、维生素C、稀土化合物、硅胶固载硫酸钛、硫酸铁铵、硫酸氢钠、磁性固体超强酸、酸改性高岭土、杂多酸(盐)等数种不同催化剂催化合成乳酸正丁酯的实验结果.结果表明,强酸型阳离子交换树脂、硫酸氢钠、磁性固体超强酸、硅胶固载硫酸钛、活性炭固载杂多酸五种催化剂催化合成乳酸正丁酯的酯收率较高,具有实际使用价值.     

Reaction and relaxation of vibrationally excited molecules: a classical trajectory study of Br + HCl(υ′) and Br + DCl(υ′) collisions

a quasiclassical trajectory study has been carried out to investigate the dynamics of collisions between Br + HCl (1 υ′ 4) and Br + DCl (υ′ = 2,3). For HCl (υ′ 2) and DCl (υ′ = 3), the endoergic reaction producing Cl + HBr occurs readily, and at approximately the same rate as vibrational deactivation in non-reactive collisions. For HCl(υ′ = 2) and DCl(υ′ = 3), where the initial vibrational energies are similar to |ΔE₀ for the reaction, the rates of both reactive and inelastic processes are quite strongly temperature dependent but the ratio of reactive to inelastic encounters is not a strong function of T. Comparison of the calculated results for Br + HCl(υ′ = 1) with experimentally determined rates strongly suggests that, at least at low temperatures, removal of HCl(υ′ = 1) by Br atoms occurs predominantly via electronically non-adiabatic vibrational relaxation.     

Chemoenzymatic approach to enantiopure piperidine-based β-amino esters in organic solvents

This research concentrates on the enantioselectivities of lipase-catalysed reactions with methyl esters of 2-piperidylacetic acid and 3-piperidinecarboxylic acid derivatives. N-Acetylated 2-piperidylacetic acid methyl ester displayed good enantioselectivity (E = 66) in a 1:1 mixture of diisopropyl ether and butyl butanoate in the presence of lipase PS-C II from Burkholderia cepacia. The reaction is known as interesterification with butyl butanoate rather than alcoholysis with the butanol, because butyl butanoate has to be first hydrolysed or go through alcoholysis with MeOH in order to release butanol. Other N-protective groups (Boc, Ns, Fmoc and Bzn) gave excellent enantioselectivity (E >200) under the same conditions, and a gram-scale resolution was performed with N-Boc-2-piperidylacetic acid methyl ester. Reaction with a 3-piperidylcarboxylic acid derivative took place with disappointingly low enantioselectivity (E = 4), with Candida antarctica lipase B being the best of the lipases screened.     

Oligomeric carbocation-like species from protonation of chloroalkanes

The protonation of chloroethane by the strongest known solid superacid, the carborane acid H(CHB(11)Cl(11)), has been studied by quantitative IR spectroscopic methods to track mass balance and uncover previously unobserved chemistry. In the first step, an intermediate EtCl·H(CHB(11)Cl(11)) species without full proton transfer to EtCl can be observed when d(5)-deuterated chloroethane is used. It rapidly eliminates HCl (but not DCl) to form ethyl carborane, Et(CHB(11)Cl(11)), which binds a second molecule of chloroethane to form the Et(2)Cl(+) chloronium ion. This undergoes a slower, previously unrecognized HCl elimination reaction to form a butyl carborane, Bu(CHB(11)Cl(11)), beginning an oligomerization process whereby unsymmetrical dialkylchloronium ions decompose to alkyl carboranes of formula Bu(C(2)H(4))(n)(CHB(11)Cl(11)) up to n = 4. Over time, a parallel competing process of de-oligomerization take place in the presence of free carborane acid that finishes with the formation of hexyl or butyl carboranes. Upon heating to 150 C, the final products are all converted to the remarkably stable tert-butyl cation carborane salt.     

Investigation of arsine-generating reactions using deuterium-labeled reagents and mass spectrometry

Mass spectrometry was used to detect transfer of deuterium from labeled reagents to arsines following hydride-generation reactions. The arsine gases liberated from the reactions of arsenite, arsenate, methylarsonic acid, and dimethylarsinic acid with HCl and NaBD(4) in H(2)O, or with DCl and NaBH(4) in D(2)O, were examined. Differences in the mode of deuterium incorporation for the various arsines were detected. These results may help explain some of the observed variations in arsine-generation efficiency for various arsenic compounds present in environmental and biological samples.     

Modified transition state theory and negative apparent activation energies of simple metathesis reactions: application to the reaction CH3 + HBr --> CH4 + Br

A modified transition state theory (MTST) has been developed for gas-phase reactions with "negative barriers". The theory was applied to the reactions CH3 + HBr(DBr) --> CH4(CH3D) + Br (1a, 1b), which exhibit negative temperature dependences. Accurate ab initio calculations performed with coupled cluster theory extrapolated to the complete basis set limit revealed a transition state located at -2.3 kJ mol(-1) relative to the ground state of the reactants (in reaction 1a), as well as a shallow bound complex. The negative temperature dependence, the absolute values of the rate constant, and the isotope substitution effect are reproduced with good accuracy (10%), without any adjustment or fitting parameters. Analytical expressions are presented for MTST including angular momentum conservation, centrifugal barriers and tunneling. This analysis uses information about the possibly loose entrance barrier and the transition state but does not invoke a statistical intermediate complex.     

Counterion Association and Structural Conformation Change of Charged PAMAM Dendrimer in Aqueous Solutions Revealed by Small Angle Neutron Scattering

Our previous study of the structure change of poly(amidoamine) starburst dendrimers (PAMAM) dendrimer of generation 5 (G5) have demonstrated that although the overall molecular size is practically unaffected by increasing DCl concentration, a configurational transformation, from a diffusive density profile to a more uniform density distribution, is clearly observed. In the current paper, the focus is placed on understanding the effect of counterion identity on the inter-molecular structure and the conformational properties by studying the effect due to DBr using small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and integral equation theory. While the overall molecular size is found to be essentially unaffected by the change in the pD of solutions, it is surprising that the intra-molecular configurational transformation is not observed when DBr is used. The overall effective charge of a dendrimer is nearly the same for α < 1, independent of the type of acids. However, when α > 1, the effect of counterion identity becomes significant, the effective charge carried by a charged G5 PAPAM protonated by DBr becomes smaller than that of solutions with DCl. As a consequence, a counterion identity dependence of counterion association is revealed: Under the same level of molecular protonation, the specific counterion association, which is defined as the ratio of bound chloride anions to positively charged amines per molecule, is larger for the G5 PAMAM dendrimer charged by DBr than the one by DCl.