Systematic Computational Study on the Unimolecular Reactions of Alkylperoxy (RO2), Hydroperoxyalkyl (QOOH), and Hydroperoxyalkylperoxy (O2QOOH) Radicals
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Abstract
Unimolecular isomerization and decomposition reactions of alkylperoxy (RO(2)), hydroperoxyalkyl (QOOH), and hydroperoxyalkylperoxy (O(2)QOOH) radicals play important roles in the low-temperature oxidation of hydrocarbons. In this study, these reactions have been investigated by the CBS-QB3 quantum chemical method, and the variation of the rate parameters by the structural change of alkyl groups has been studied systematically for the rule-based construction of the low-temperature oxidation mechanisms of arbitrary noncyclic alkanes. The results can be well-interpreted in terms of the group additivity and the ring-strain effect of the cyclic transition states. To extract the important processes needed for the chemical kinetic modeling, the competing reaction channels were compared in detail by steady-state analysis with the high-pressure limiting rate constants. The importance of some reactions of O(2)QOOH radicals, which have not been considered in the previous modeling studies, such as the hydrogen exchange reactions between -OOH and -OO(•) groups and hydrogen shift reactions from non-OOH sites, is suggested.
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