Pulse Radiolysis Studies. XVI. Kinetics of the Reaction of Gaseous Hydrogen Atoms with Molecular Oxygen by Fast Lyman‐αAbsorption Spectrophotometry

1970 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 3210-3216 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. P. Bishop ◽  
Leon M. Dorfman

The addition of molecular oxygen was found to increase the rate of rem oval of hydrogen atoms in a flow system at and below room temperature. Kinetic studies of this process using argon carrier showed that the rate-determining step is the third-order reaction H + O2 + Ar = HO 2 + Ar. (2) Atomic oxygen in small concentrations is produced in the system. Product analysis and measurements of oxygen atom concentrations indicated that the principal reactions removing HO 2 under these conditions are H+HO 2 = H 2 +O 2 , (12a) H+HO 2 = OH+OH, (12b) H+HO 2 = H 2 O+O 2 , (12c) A value for k 2 of 2.2 x 10 -32 cm 6 molecule -2 s -1 was determined at 293 °K. Reaction (2) was found to have a small negative temperature coefficient. These data and values of k 2 from explosion limit studies can be represented by the expression k 2 = 1.3 x 10 -33 exp (+ 1600 + 700/ RT ) cm 6 molecule -2 s -1 in the range 250 to 800 °K. The third-body efficiencies in reaction (2) at 293 °K of He and H 2 O relative to Ar are similar to those obtained from data on the second explosion limit at higher temperatures.


1969 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 1348-1351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard J. Wood ◽  
Henry Wise

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
SJ Leach ◽  
JH Baxendale ◽  
MG Evans

The rates of oxidation of N-methylacridan by 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol have been measured between pH 2.74 and 6.91 at 20 to 22 �C in the presence of 8 to 22 per cent. ethanol. The reaction was of the second order and was found to proceed by ' two simultaneous mechanisms, both involving the conjugate acid of N-methylacridan. The oxidation of this cation by the indophenol anion proceeded at a rate which was 19 times greater than the oxidation by the uncharged indophenol molecule. It is shown that oxidation probably occurs by hydrogen atom transfer rather than electron transfer. A similar mechanism for the oxidation of dihydro-coenzyme I would account for its slow reactivity towards molecular oxygen and the biological necessity for mediating systems involving both hydrogen atoms and electrons.


Author(s):  
Domenik Schleier ◽  
Engelbert Reusch ◽  
Marius Gerlach ◽  
Tobias Preitschopf ◽  
Deb Pratim Mukhopadhyay ◽  
...  

The reaction kinetics of the isomers of the methylallyl radical with molecular oxygen has been studied in a flow tube reactor at the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) beamline of the Swiss Light Source storage ring.


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