Vibration-Rotation Line Strengths Of The Gas-Phase Oh Radical

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Podolske
2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
pp. 1769-1786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc A. Vannier ◽  
Chunxiang Yao ◽  
František Tureček

A computational study at correlated levels of theory is reported to address the structures and energetics of transient radicals produced by hydrogen atom abstraction from C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4, C-5, O-1, O-3, and O-5 positions in 2-deoxyribofuranose in the gas phase and in aqueous solution. In general, the carbon-centered radicals are found to be thermodynamically and kinetically more stable than the oxygen-centered ones. The most stable gas-phase radical, 2-deoxyribofuranos-5-yl (5), is produced by H-atom abstraction from C-5 and stabilized by an intramolecular hydrogen bond between the O-5 hydroxy group and O-1. The order of radical stabilities is altered in aqueous solution due to different solvation free energies. These prefer conformers that lack intramolecular hydrogen bonds and expose O-H bonds to the solvent. Carbon-centered deoxyribose radicals can undergo competitive dissociations by loss of H atoms, OH radical, or by ring cleavages that all require threshold dissociation or transition state energies >100 kJ mol-1. This points to largely non-specific dissociations of 2-deoxyribose radicals when produced by exothermic hydrogen atom abstraction from the saccharide molecule. Oxygen-centered 2-deoxyribose radicals show only marginal thermodynamic and kinetic stability and are expected to readily fragment upon formation.


2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 11055-11067 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Salo ◽  
M. Hallquist ◽  
Å. M. Jonsson ◽  
H. Saathoff ◽  
K.-H. Naumann ◽  
...  

Abstract. The aim of this study was to investigate oxidation of SOA formed from ozonolysis of α-pinene and limonene by hydroxyl radicals. This paper focuses on changes of particle volatility, using a Volatility Tandem DMA (VTDMA) set-up, in order to explain and elucidate the mechanism behind atmospheric ageing of the organic aerosol. The experiments were conducted at the AIDA chamber facility of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe and at the SAPHIR chamber of Forchungzentrum Jülich (FZJ) in Jülich. A fresh SOA was produced from ozonolysis of α-pinene or limonene and then aged by enhanced OH exposure. As an OH radical source in the AIDA-chamber the ozonolysis of tetramethylethylene (TME) was used while in the SAPHIR-chamber the OH was produced by natural light photochemistry. A general feature is that SOA produced from ozonolysis of α-pinene and limonene initially was rather volatile and becomes less volatile with time in the ozonolysis part of the experiment. Inducing OH chemistry or adding a new portion of precursors made the SOA more volatile due to addition of new semi-volatile material to the aged aerosol. The effect of OH chemistry was less pronounced in high concentration and low temperature experiments when lower relative amounts of semi-volatile material were available in the gas phase. Conclusions drawn from the changes in volatility were confirmed by comparison with the measured and modelled chemical composition of the aerosol phase. Three quantified products from the α-pinene oxidation; pinonic acid, pinic acid and methylbutanetricarboxylic acid (MBTCA) were used to probe the processes influencing aerosol volatility. A major conclusion from the work is that the OH induced ageing can be attributed to gas phase oxidation of products produced in the primary SOA formation process and that there was no indication on significant bulk or surface reactions. The presented results, thus, strongly emphasise the importance of gas phase oxidation of semi- or intermediate-volatile organic compounds (SVOC and IVOC) for atmospheric aerosol ageing.


2012 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 460-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenxi Zhang ◽  
Wenbo Yang ◽  
Jing Bai ◽  
Yuyang Zhao ◽  
Chen Gong ◽  
...  

The microwave rotational spectrum of the hydrogen-bonded heterodimer CH 3 CN • • • HF has been identified and shown to be characteristic of a symmetric top. A detailed analysis of several rotational transitions for a variety of isotopic species gives the spectroscopic constants summarized in the following table: Rotational constants/MHz, vibration-rotation constants/MHz and vibrational separations/cm -1 of CH 3 CN • • • HF


1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1119-1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Herman ◽  
Robert J. Rubin

The magnitude of the effect of the vibration–rotation interaction on the intensities of pure rotation lines of diatomic molecules has been calculated for two different molecular models, the anharmonic oscillator and the rotating Morse or Pekeris oscillator. The intensity correction for the anharmonic oscillator has been obtained by adapting the contact transformation formalism for calculating second-order corrections to the energy to the calculation of first-order corrections to the matrix elements of the electric moment as suggested by H. H. Nielsen. The correction to the line intensity for vibrationless transitions of the anharmonic oscillator is found to be[Formula: see text]The results obtained here are also in complete agreement, to first order, with the results obtained earlier by Herman and Wallis for the 1–0 and 2–0 vibration–rotation line intensities. In the case of the Pekeris or rotating Morse oscillator the correction to the pure rotation line intensity is of the same form as above, namely,[Formula: see text]but exhibits minor differences which can be explained in terms of the difference in the vibrational potential energy function in the two cases.


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