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0.043 Torr for H2S, 0.11–0.22 STP cm3 sϪ1 and 0.045–0.090
Torr for S2Cl2 , and 0.94–2.60 STP cm3 sϪ1 and 0.40–1.11
Torr for Ar; STP indicates standard temperature at 273 K and
pressure at 1 atm. Ar ͑Scott Specialty Gases, 99.999%͒ and
H2S ͑AGA Specialty Gases, 99.95%͒ were used without pu-
rification. S2Cl2 ͑Hayashi Co., 99%͒ was degassed at 180 K
before use.
distribution of HCl produced from reaction ͑1͒ that was ini-
tiated with laser irradiation.15 By comparison of the signal
filtered with a gas cell filled with HCl with that through
an interference filter passing emissions of HCl( ϭ1,2), they
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estimated HCl( ϭ2) / HCl( ϭ1) ϭ0.067. They also
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determined
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rate coefficient of (6.0Ϯ1.2)ϫ10Ϫ11
cm3 moleculeϪ1 sϪ1 for reaction ͑1͒. Later, Nesbitt and
Leone used a similar method and reported a revised branch-
ing ratio of HCl( ϭ2) / HCl( ϭ1) р0.02 and a rate co-
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III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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efficient (7.3Ϯ0.9)ϫ10Ϫ11 cm3 moleculeϪ1 sϪ1
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More re-
Following previous reports,15 we employed S2Cl2 rather
than Cl2 as a source of Cl atoms because HS reacts with Cl2
readily and propagates chain reactions; reaction of HS with
Cl2 produces HSCl that further reacts with Cl or Cl2 to form
HCl in its highly vibrationally excited states, consequently
interfering with measurements.15 Photodissociation of S2Cl2
in a molecular beam at 308 nm has been extensively inves-
tigated with fragmentation translational spectroscopy.23 At
this wavelength, S2Cl2 undergoes a simple S–Cl bond sciss-
ion with fragments carrying translational energy averaged at
88 kJ molϪ1. The average translational energy of Cl atoms
immediately after photolysis is thus 64 kJ molϪ1, yielding an
average collisional energy of 33.6 kJ molϪ1 between Cl and
H2S. At a pressure of 0.6 Torr, there are more than ten col-
lisions within 1 s; hence most Cl atoms are thermalized
within 1 s. At 0 K, reaction ͑1͒ has an enthalpy of reaction
of ⌬HoϭϪ57.7 kJ molϪ1, derived from enthalpies of for-
mation ͑in unit of kJ molϪ1͒ of Cl ͑119.62͒, H2S ͑Ϫ17.58͒,
HS ͑136.49͒, and HCl ͑Ϫ92.13͒.24 Hence the available en-
ergy for reaction ͑1͒ at 298 K is ϳ69 kJ molϪ1, after taking
into account of translational and rotational energies of Cl and
H2S, but without adding a calculated barrier height of ϳ5
kJ molϪ1 ͑Ref. 25͒ that is smaller than thermal energy. Avail-
able energy used for reaction ͑1͒ in previous work was 64
cent measurements on the rate coefficient of reaction ͑1͒
range from 4.0 to 10.5ϫ10Ϫ11 cm3 moleculeϪ1 sϪ1 17–21 HS
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was found to be vibrationally cold.15
Agrawalla and Setser3 detected infrared chemilumines-
cence of DCl and laser-induced fluorescence of DS to study
the reaction of Cl with D2S in a fast-flow reactor,
ClϩD S→DCl ,J͒ϩDS ,J͒.
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They determined DCl( ϭ2) / DCl( ϭ1) Х3/7 and
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DS( ϭ1) / DS( ϭ0) ϭ0.08Ϯ0.04. Hossenlopp et al.
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used time-resolved infrared diode laser absorption spectros-
copy to probe DCl that was produced from reaction ͑2͒ and
determined
a vibrational distribution of DCl( ϭ0)
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: DCl( ϭ1) : DCl( ϭ2) ϭ33Ϯ7:56Ϯ7:11Ϯ3; they also
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determined
rate coefficient of (3.2Ϯ0.3)ϫ10Ϫ11
cm3 moleculeϪ1 sϪ1 for reaction ͑2͒.22
Using TR–FTS, we determined the nascent rotational
and vibrational distribution of HCl produced from reaction
͑1͒. Our results show a rotational energy of HCl much
greater than that reported previously, but consistent with
other similar reactions.
II. EXPERIMENTS
The apparatus employed to obtain step-scan time-
resolved Fourier-transform spectra has been described
previously;8,10 only a brief summary is given here. A tele-
scope mildly focused the photolysis beam from a XeCl laser
͑308 nm͒ to ϳ20 mm2 at the reaction center with a fluence
ϳ100 mJ cmϪ2. A filter passing 2436–3310 cmϪ1 was em-
ployed for detection of HCl. The transient signal of an InSb
detector with a rise time of 0.22 s was amplified with an
effective bandwidth of 1 MHz before being digitized with
either an internal digitizer ͑16-bit, 5-s resolution͒ or an ex-
ternal data-acquisition board ͑PAD1232, 12-bit ADC, 25 ns
resolution͒. Data were typically averaged over 60 laser
pulses at each scan step; 4188 scan steps were performed to
yield an interferogram resulting in a spectrum of resolution
0.5 cmϪ1. For analysis of nascent rotational distributions,
typically 20 consecutive time-resolved spectra at 25 ns inter-
vals were summed to yield a satisfactory spectrum represent-
ing emission averaged over a period of 0.5 s. For analysis
of the vibrational distribution and quenching, 150 spectra
were typically recorded at 5 s intervals with the internal
ADC.
kJ molϪ1,3 or 50 kJ molϪ1 14
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Although the branching between spin–orbit states of Cl
produced from photolysis of S2Cl2 at 235 nm has been de-
termined to be Cl(2P ) : Cl(2P ) ϭ35:65 by the three-
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1/2
dimensional ͑3D͒ imaging technique,26 there is no such in-
formation for photolysis of S2Cl2 at 308 nm. We assume that
most Cl(2P1/2), if produced, is quenched under out experi-
mental conditions.
To observe directly a nascent rotational distribution of
products from a bimolecular reaction in a flow system is
difficult because one is unlikely to find a condition for the
reaction to proceed to produce products in detectable amount
while maintaining a nearly collisionless condition to avoid
rotational quenching. By decreasing the pressure of the re-
agent as much as possible while maintaining a satisfactory
signal to noise ratio, we recorded emission of HCl with a fast
external digitizer at 25 ns resolution, followed by averaging
every 20 consecutive time-resolved spectra to yield spectra
with resolution of 0.5 s; a nascent rotational population of
HCl was subsequently derived by short extrapolation to
tϭ0 based on observed population. To determine the vibra-
tional distribution of HCl, we added about 1.1 Torr of Ar to
thermalize the rotational excitation and used an internal 16-
bit digitizer at 5 s resolution to obtain temporal profiles of
Flow rates of H2S and Ar were measured with mass flow
meters, and that of S2Cl2 was determined with a dP/dt
method that measures the pressure increase in a calibrated
volume over a specific period of time. Typical flow rates and
partial pressures are 0.04–0.10 STP cm3 sϪ1 and 0.017–
HCl( ) up to 750 s after initiation of reaction. We looked
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carefully but found no evidence of emission of HS ( ).
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