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Table 3
Pressure effect on the rate constants of NO3 + NO2 at 283 K.
Pressure
(Torr)
[N2O5]0
[NO2]add
[NO3]0
k1
(1014 molecules cmꢁ3
)
(1014 molecules cmꢁ3
)
(1012 molecules cmꢁ3
)
(10ꢁ12 cm3 moleculeꢁ1 sꢁ1
)
20
50
3.4–6.8
6.6–6.8
6.8
10
6.8
6.8
6.8
9.6
4.7–23
4.9–25
5.1–26
10–30
0.4–1.0
0.5–0.8
0.6–0.8
0.9–1.8
1.5–1.7
1.8–1.9
1.1–1.4
2.8–3.0
0.68 0.09
0.84 0.11
1.08 0.12
1.28 0.17
1.33 0.18
1.44 0.18
1.50 0.23
1.49 0.20
100
200
300
400
500
700
3.4–10
3.4–10
3.4–10
4.8–15
fitting of the data to Troe’s expression (2) with Fc = 0.6, The values
for the low-pressure and high-pressure limiting rate constants of
reaction (1) at 283 K were also determined to be kl1ow(283 K) =
(3.4 1.0) ꢀ 10ꢁ30 cm6 moleculeꢁ2 sꢁ1 and kh1igh(298 K) = (1.7
0.3) ꢀ 10ꢁ12 cm3 moleculeꢁ1 sꢁ1. These results are also summarized
in Table 2. For comparison, the data of k1 at 298 K reported by Kircher
et al. [5], Smith et al. [6], Burrows et al. [7], Wallington et al. [8] and
Orlando et al. [9], which were usedto obtained kl1ow and k1high of NASA/
JPL recommendation, are shown with ours in Figure 4. The falloff
curves of NASA/JPL and IUPAC recommendations are also indicated
in Figure 4. As shown in Figure 4, the values of k1 determined in this
work are in excellent agreement with the falloff curve of IUPAC rec-
ommendations and some of present values are close to some of those
reported previously. The values of k1 determined in this work are
10–40% larger than those recommend by NASA/JPL [1]. This result
is consistent with the suggestion by Burkholder and Ravishankara
in their paper [12]. Because of the importanceof reaction ofNO3 with
NO2 in the atmospheric chemistry, the results of this work are con-
sidered to be valuable for atmospheric model simulations.
Figure 4. Plot of reported rate constants of NO3 with NO2 as a function of N2 diluent
pressure at 298 K. The data of this work (closed circles), Kircher et al. (open
diamonds), Smith et al. (opened down triangles), Burrows et al. (open hexagons),
Wallington et al. (opened up triangles) and Orlando et al. (opened squares) are
shown. The black curve and gray curve are the falloff curves of NASA/JPL and IUPAC
recommendations at 298 K, respectively.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Global Environment Research
Fund of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (RF-071). Y. Nakano
is grateful to a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Sci-
ence, Sports and Culture of Japan, No. 21710013. T. Ishiwata is
grateful to JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) No.
21550009.
and (6). As discussed above, the value of k0base loss gradually increased
during experiments because the N2O5 molecules in glass bulb grad-
ually decomposed to NO2 during the experiments. We measured k0
with [NO2]add = 0 before and after the measurements with [NO2]add
– 0, and corrected the change of k0base loss in determining the rate con-
stant of reaction (1). By this procedure, the term of k1 [NO2]add in Eq.
(6) could be extracted with reasonable accuracy. Figure 2 shows
(k0 ꢁ kb0 ase loss) vs. [NO2]add in 100 Torr of N2 diluent at 298 K. By con-
sidering the relationship of Eq. (5), a linear least-squares analysis
gives k1 = (0.98 0.11) ꢀ 10ꢁ12 cm3 moleculeꢁ1 sꢁ1. The quoted
uncertainty is derived by considering the uncertainties of calibra-
tions of [NO2]add, measurements of pressure, mass flow rates, and
reaction path length, and also the fitting errors.
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