Kinetics and Temperature Dependence of the Hydration of NO+ in the Gas Phase

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. French ◽  
L. P. Hills ◽  
P. Kebarle

The kinetics of the atmospherically important hydration sequence: NO+(H2O)n−1 + H2O = NO+(H2O)n and the transfer reaction NO+(H2O)n + H2O = HNO2 + H+(H2O)n were examined in nitrogen containing small quantities of NO and H2O with a pulsed high pressure ion source mass spectrometer. The room temperature mechanism and rate constants were found to be in agreement with earlier work in other laboratories. The temperature dependence of the reaction was examined for the range 27–157 °C. The transfer reaction does not occur at higher temperatures so that the NO+ hydration equilibria for n = 1 and 2 could be measured leading to ΔH1,0 = 18.5 and ΔH2,1 = 16.1 kcal/mol. The third order forward clustering rate constants were found to have negative temperature coefficients.

Although there are few gaseous reactions of more fundamental interest than the union of hydrogen and oxygen, it can hardly be said that the kinetics of this combination are at all completely understood. Many investigations have been made of the catalytic reaction which occurs in contact with various surfaces, and of the phenomena accompanying the production of flame or explosion in the gas. Little is known about the conditions governing the rate of the actual chemical change in the gas phase, because although flames and explosions depend very much upon these they are determined by a great many other factors as well. In 1899 Bodenstein, following up some work initiated by Victor Meyer, made a long series of experiments by streaming mixtures of the two gases through porcelain vessels, heated to a constant temperature, and then analysing the products. He came to the conclusion that the reaction is of the third order, following the equation d [H 2 O]/ dt = k [H 2 ] 2 [O 2 ]. Since the rate of combination was very different in different vessels, he inferred that the reaction was taking place almost entirely on the surface of the vessel.


1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (17) ◽  
pp. 2861-2867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh A. Gillis

The ratios of rate constants for disproportionation to combination have been measured for ethyl radicals and for i-propyl radicals in liquid methane between −181 and −94 °C. The radicals were generated by γ-radiolysis of dilute methane solutions of ethylene-d4 or propylene-d6. The activation energy for combination was found to exceed that for disproportionation by 290 ± 30 cal mol−1 for ethyl radicals and by 255 ± 25 cal mol−1 for i-propyl radicals. In both cases the disproportionation—combination ratio in the liquid, extrapolated to room temperature, is greater than that in the gas phase by a factor of about 2.5. These results are interpreted as indicating that disproportionation and combination reactions proceed by way of different transition states.


1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (24) ◽  
pp. 3205-3215 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. Davidson ◽  
S. Meza-Höjer ◽  
P. Kebarle

The equilibria [2]: [Formula: see text] for R = CH3, C2H5, and C6H5 were studied in a pulsed electron beam high ion source pressure mass spectrometer. van't Hoff plots led to ΔH2 values: (CH3), 24.6; (C2H5), 22.7; (C6H5), 21.9 kcal/mol. ΔHf(RC(OH)2+) were obtained from gas phase basicity ladders combined with the new ΔHf(t-butyl+) = 163 kcal/mol (Beauchamp). The ΔHf(RC(OH)2+) were: (CH3), 71.3; (C2H5), 63.6; (C6H5), 95.5 kcal/mol. Combination of ΔH2 with ΔHf(RC(OH)2+) leads to ΔHf(RCO+): (CH3), 153.7; (C2H5), 144; (C6H5), 174.6 kcal/mol. These results are in agreement with selected data from appearance potentials. The energies and structures of the participants in reaction [2] were calculated by MINDO/3 and STO-3G. MINDO/3 gave good agreement with ΔH2. The establishment of the equilibria [2] was unusually slow. A study of the kinetics revealed that k2f is approximately third order, unusually small, and has an unusually large negative temperature coefficient. Furthermore, reaction [2] was found to be catalyzed by RCOOH. An explanation of these observations is given by assuming that the proton shift RCO(OH2)+ → RC(OH)2+ has a large activation energy barrier in the gas phase. This barrier is removed by formation of a hydrogen bonded complex with RCOOH.


1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 1615-1621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott D. Tanner ◽  
Gervase I. Mackay ◽  
Diethard K. Bohme

Flowing afterglow measurements are reported which provide rate constants and product identifications at 298 ± 2 K for the gas-phase reactions of OH− with CH3OH, C2H5OH, CH3OCH3, CH2O, CH3CHO, CH3COCH3, CH2CO, HCOOH, HCOOCH3, CH2=C=CH2, CH3—C≡CH, and C6H5CH3. The main channels observed were proton transfer and solvation of the OH−. Hydration with one molecule of H2O was observed either to reduce the rate slightly and lead to products which are the hydrated analogues of the "nude" reaction, or to stop the reaction completely, k ≤ 10−12 cm3 molecule−1 s−1. The reaction of OH−•H2O with CH3—C≡CH showed an uncertain intermediate behaviour.


1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (21) ◽  
pp. 3605-3619 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Willis ◽  
R. A. Back

Preparation of di-imide by passing hydrazine vapor through a microwave discharge yields mixtures with NH3 containing typically about 15% N2H2, estimated from the gases evolved on decomposition. The behavior of the mixture (which melts at −65 °C) on warming from −196 to −30 °C suggests a strong interaction between the components. Measurements of magnetic susceptibility and e.p.r. experiments showed that N2H2 is not strongly paramagnetic, which with other observations points to a singlet rather than a triplet ground-state.Di-imide can be vaporized efficiently, together with NH3, by rapid warming, and the vapor is surprisingly long-lived, with a typical half-life of several minutes at room temperature. The near-u.v. (3200–4400 Å) absorption spectrum of the vapor was photographed; it shows well-defined but diffuse bands, with εmax = 6(± 3) at 3450 Å.Di-imide decomposes at room temperature in two ways:[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]Formation of NH3 was not observed but cannot be ruled out. The decomposition of the vapor is complicated by a sizeable and variable decomposition that occurs rapidly during the vaporization. The stoichiometry of this and the vapor-phase decomposition depends on total pressure and di-imide concentration. The kinetics of the decomposition of the vapor were studied from 22 to 200 °C by following the disappearance of N2H2 by absorption of light at 3450 Å, or the formation of N2H4 by absorption at 2400 Å, and by mass spectrometry. The kinetics are complex and can be either first- or second-order, or mixed, depending on surface conditions. The effect of olefin additives on the decomposition was studied, and is also complex.Mechanisms for the decomposition are discussed, including the possible role of trans-cis isomerization. The relatively long lifetime found for di-imide in the gas phase suggests that it may be an important intermediate in many reactions of hydronitrogen systems.


1971 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 1010-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renate Voigt ◽  
Helmut Wenck ◽  
Friedhelm Schneider

First order rate constants of the reaction of a series of SH-, imidazole- and imidazole/SH-compounds with FDNB as well as their pH- and temperature dependence were determined. Some of the tested imidazole/SH-compounds exhibit a higher nucleophilic reactivity as is expected on the basis of their pKSH-values. This enhanced reactivity is caused by an activation of the SH-groups by a neighbouring imidazole residue. The pH-independent rate constants were calculated using the Lindley equation.The kinetics of DNP-transfer from DNP-imidazole to SH-compounds were investigated. The pH-dependence of the reaction displays a maximum curve. Donor in this reaction is the DNP-imidazolecation and acceptor the thiolate anion.The reaction rate of FDNB with imidazole derivatives is two to three orders of magnitude slower than with SH-compounds.No inter- or intra-molecular transfer of the DNP-residue from sulfure to imidazole takes place.


2001 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 701-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Morizet ◽  
S. C. Kohn ◽  
R. A. Brooker

AbstractThe thermodynamics and kinetics of CO2 speciation in silicate melts have been studied by measuring the concentration of CO2mol and carbonate in jadeite glass annealed at 575, 450 and 400°C. Assuming that the reaction is1where CO2mol..Obr represents a CO2 molecule weakly bonded to a bridging oxygen in the network and CO3 represents a bridging carbonate group with no net negative charge, ΔH for the reaction is –17 (+4/–8) kJ mol−1 and ΔS is –24 (+6/–9) J K−1 mol−1. The rate of equilibration of the species was measured at each temperature and the rate constants were deduced. The temperature dependence of the rate constants was used to determine the activation energy of the forward and reverse reactions which are 68 (+3/–31) kJ mol−1 and 86 (+1/–69) kJ mol−1 respectively. The data suggest that CO2mol may be much more abundant in silicate melts than previously assumed on the basis of studies of CO2-bearing glasses. Models of solubility, diffusion, and isotope fractionation should take this into account.


1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harro M. Heilmann ◽  
Michael K. Stenstrom ◽  
Rolf P. X. Hesselmann ◽  
Udo Wiesmann

In order to get basic data for the design of a novel treatment scheme for high explosives we investigated the kinetics for the aqueous alkaline hydrolysis of 1,3,5,7-tetraaza-1,3,5,7-tetranitrocyclooctane (HMX) and the temperature dependence of the rate constants. We used an HPLC procedure for the analysis of HMX. All experimental data could be fit accurately to a pseudo first-order rate equation and subsequent calculation of second-order rate constants was also precise. Temperature dependence could be modeled with the Arrhenius equation. An increase of 10°C led to an average increase in the second-order rate constants by the 3.16 fold. The activation energy of the second-order reaction was determined to be 111.9 ±0.76 kJ·moJ‒1. We found the alkaline hydrolysis to be rapid (less than 2.5% of the initial HMX-concentration left after 100 minutes) at base concentrations of 23 mmol oH‒/L and elevated temperatures between 60 and 80°C.


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