Abstract: | The competitive reactions between 2-trifluoromethylpropene (TMP) and OCS for O(3P) atoms were studied between 300° and 523°K, using the mercury-senstitized photolysis of N2O as a source of O(3P). From the known value for the rate constant of the O(3P) + TMP reaction, k3 was found to be 1.6 × 10?11 exp (?4500/RT) cm3/particle-sec, where reaction (3) is Mixtures of O3 and OCS were photolyzed at 197°, 228°, 273°, and 299°K with radiation above 4300 Å to produce O(3P) from the photolysis of O3, and thus study the competition between reaction (3) and From the above value of k3, k1 could be computed. When combined with all the previous data, the best espression for k1 is k1 = 1.2 × 10?11 exp (?4300/RT) cm3/particle-sec. |