Kinetics of the simplest Criegee intermediate reaction with ozone studied by mid-infrared quantum cascade laser spectrometer
Abstract
The kinetics of CH2OO reaction with ozone has been studied by monitoring CH2OO with time-resolved infrared (IR) absorption spectroscopy, which utilized fast chirped IR pulse train from a quantum cascade laser [J. Chem. Phys. 146, 244302 (2017)]. CH2OO was prepared by photolyzing a gas mixture of CH2I2/O2/O3 at 352 nm; the photolysis wavelength was chosen to minimize the photodissociation of O3. The measured rate coefficient at 298 K and 30 Torr is (6.70.5)x10-14 cm3sec-1, independent of pressure from 30 to 100 Torr. The result indicates that previous ab initio calculations either underestimated or overestimated this reaction rate by one order of magnitude or more. The result also implies that in laboratory studies of ozonolysis of alkenes, the reaction of Criegee intermediate with ozone may play a role. However, this reaction would not compete with other CH2OO sinks in the atmosphere.
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