Theoretical approach to the mechanism of reactions between halogen atoms and unsaturated hydrocarbons: the Cl + propene reaction |
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Authors: | Braña Pedro Sordo José A |
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Affiliation: | Laboratorio de Química Computacional, Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Oviedo, 33006, Oviedo, Principado de Asturias, Spain. |
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Abstract: | The potential energy surface for the Cl + propene reaction was analyzed at the MP2 level using Pople's 6-31G(d,p) and 6-311+G(d,p), and Dunning's cc-pVDZ and aug-cc-pVDZ basis sets. Two different channels for the addition reaction leading to chloroalkyl radicals and five alternative channels for the abstraction reaction leading to C(3)H(5) (.) + HCl were explored. The corresponding energy profiles were computed at the QCISD(T)/aug-cc-pVDZ//MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. Theoretical results suggest that the previously established mechanism consisting of (1) direct abstraction and (2) addition-elimination steps is instead made up of (1) addition through an intermediate and (2) two-step abstraction processes. No direct abstraction mechanism exists on the potential energy surface. The kinetic equations derived for the new mechanism are consistent with the pressure dependence experimentally observed for this reaction. |
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Keywords: | atmospheric chemistry chlorine kinetics radical reactions reaction mechanisms |
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