2781-85-3Relevant articles and documents
Photodissociation dynamics of the allyl radical
Deyerl, Hans-Juergen,Fischer, Ingo,Chen, Peter
, p. 1450 - 1462 (1999)
The photochemistry and photodissociation dynamics of the allyl radical upon ultraviolet (UV) excitation is investigated in a molecular beam by using time- and frequency-resolved photoionization of hydrogen atoms with Lyman-a-radiation. The UV states of allyl decay by internal conversion to the ground state, forming vibrationally hot radicals that lose hydrogen atoms on a nanosecond time scale. Two channels are identified, formation of allene directly from allyl, and isomerization from allyl to 2-propenyl, with a subsequent hydrogen loss, resulting in both allene and propyne formation. The branching ratio is between 2:1 and 3:1, with direct formation of allene being the dominant reaction channel. This channel is associated with site-selective loss of hydrogen from the central carbon atom, as observed in experiments on isotopically labeled radicals. Ab initio calculations of the reaction pathways and Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus (RRKM) calculations of the rates are in agreement with the mechanism and branching ratios. From the measured Doppler profiles a translational energy release of 14±1 kcal/mol is calculated. The calculated value of 66 kcal/mol for the barrier to the 1,2 hydrogen shift from allyl radical to 2-propenyl is confirmed by the experimental data.
Bailey,Walsh
, (1978)
Closs,Krantz
, p. 638 (1966)
Srinivasan
, p. 1758 (1967)
CYCLOPROPENES-GENERATING DEVICES TO CONTROL RIPENING PROCESSES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
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Page/Page column 6, (2012/06/01)
Provided is a device for generation of cyclopropene compounds which is capable of achieving direct in situ preparation and application of cyclopropene compounds inhibiting the action of ethylene which accelerates the ripening process of plants, the device comprising a first storage part for storing precursors of cyclopropene compounds (“cyclopropene precursors”), a second storage part for storing reaction reagents which convert cyclopropene precursors into cyclopropene derivatives via chemical reaction, and a spray part for spraying the cyclopropene derivatives produced by the chemical reaction between the cyclopropene precursors and the reaction reagents.
Cyclic versus linear isomers produced by reaction of the methylidyne radical (CH) with small unsaturated hydrocarbons
Goulay, Fabien,Trevitt, Adam J.,Meloni, Giovanni,Selby, Talitha M.,Osborn, David L.,et al.
experimental part, p. 993 - 1005 (2009/06/28)
The reactions of the methylidyne radical (CH) with ethylene, acetylene, allene, and methylacety- lene are studied at room temperature using tunable vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photoionization and time- resolved mass spectrometry. The CH radicals are prepared by 248 nm multiphoton photolysisof CHBr 3 at 298 K and react with the selected hydrocarbon i n a helium gas flow. Analysis of photoionization efficiency versus VUV photon wavelength permits isomer-specific detection of the reaction products and allows estimation of the reaction product branching ratios. The reactions proceed by either CH insertion or addition followed by H atom elimination from the intermediate adduct. In the CH + C 2 H 4 reaction the C 3 H 5 intermediate decays byH atom loss to yield 70(±8)percent allene, 30(±8)percent methylacetylene, and less than 10percent cyclopropene, in agreement with previous RRKM results. In the CH + acetylene reaction, detection of mai nly the cyclic C 3 H 2 isomer is contrary to a previous RRKM calculations that predicted linear triplet propargylene to be 90percent of the total H-atom coproducts. High-level CBS-APNO quantum calculations and RRKM calculations for the CH + C 2 H 2 reaction presented in this manuscript predict a higher contribution of the cyclic C 3 H 2 (27.0percent) versus triplet propargylene (63.5percent) than earlier predictions. Extensive calculations onthe C 3 H 3 and C 3 H 2 D system combined with experimental isotope ratios for the CD + C 2 H2 reaction indicate that H-atom-assisted isomerization in the present experiments is responsible for the remaining discrepancy between the new RRKM calculations and the experimental results. Cyclic isomers are also found to represent 30(±6)percent of the detected products in the case of CH + methylacetylene, together with 33(±6)percent 1,2,3- butatriene and 37(±6)percent vinylacetylene. The CH + allene reaction gives 23(±5)percent 1,2,3-butatriene and 77(±5)percent vinylacetylene, whereas cyclic isomers are produced below the detection limit in this reaction. The reaction exit channels deduced by comparing the product distributions for the aforementioned reactions are discussed in detail.