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Theoretical approach to the mechanism of reactions between halogen atoms and unsaturated hydrocarbons: The Cl + propene reaction

✍ Scribed by Pedro Braña; José A. Sordo

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 411 KB
Volume: 24
Category: Article
ISSN: 0192-8651
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.10360

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Abstract

The potential energy surface for the Cl + propene reaction was analyzed at the MP2 level using Pople's 6‐31G(d,p) and 6‐311+G(d,p), and Dunning's cc‐pVDZ and aug‐cc‐pVDZ basis sets. Two different channels for the addition reaction leading to chloroalkyl radicals and five alternative channels for the abstraction reaction leading to C~3~H + HCl were explored. The corresponding energy profiles were computed at the QCISD(T)/aug‐cc‐pVDZ//MP2/aug‐cc‐pVDZ level of theory. Theoretical results suggest that the previously established mechanism consisting of (1) direct abstraction and (2) addition–elimination steps is instead made up of (1) addition through an intermediate and (2) two‐step abstraction processes. No direct abstraction mechanism exists on the potential energy surface. The kinetic equations derived for the new mechanism are consistent with the pressure dependence experimentally observed for this reaction. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 24: 2044–2062, 2003

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