Mechanistic and kinetic study of the O + CH3OCH2 reaction and the unimolecular decomposition of CH3OCH2O. 2005

Xinli Song, and Hua Hou, and Baoshan Wang
College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, People's Republic of China.

Potential energy surface for the O + CH3OCH2 reaction is calculated using the coupled cluster theory with single, double, and non-iterative triple substitutions [CCSD(T)] with a complete basis set extrapolation. It is revealed that the reaction of O with CH3OCH2 proceeds dominantly via an addition/elimination mechanism. Other minor mechanisms include direct hydrogen abstraction, which may play a significant role at high temperatures, and a high-barrier S(N)2 displacement. The initial adduct is the CH3OCH2O radical, which has many product channels via decomposition and isomerization. It is confirmed that beta-CH bond cleavage is the dominant product channel and all the remaining processes are of marginal significance. The rate coefficients for the barrierless association of O with CH3OCH2 are calculated to be in the range of (2.23-0.86) x 10(-10) cm3 molecule(-1) s(-1) with an apparently negative temperature dependence from 200-2000 K. For the H-atom production channel, the tunneling effect plays an important role and the barrier height is estimated to be 14.2 kcal mol(-1).

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