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Kinetics And Mechanisms Of The OH Radical Initiated Degradation Of A Series Of Hydrofluoroethers

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

35

Pages

4

Published

1999

Size

271 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/EURO990231

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Sinead Nolan, Niamh O'Sullivan, John Wenger, Howard Sidebottom and Jack Treacy

Abstract

Kinetics and Mechanisms of the OH Radical Initiated Degradation of a Series of Hydrofluoroethers A contribution to subproject CMD Sinead Nolan*, Niamh O'Sullivan*, John Wenger*, Howard Sidebottom* and Jack Treacy^ ^Department of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Ireland ^School of Chemistry, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin 8, Ireland Introduction Realisation of the harmful effects of chlorofluorocarbon compounds (CFCs) on the ozone layer has led to the search for more environmentally acceptable alternatives. Hydrofluoroethers (HFEs) have been proposed as CFC replacements. One advantage of these compounds is the presence of C-H bonds which allows them to be attacked by OH radicals and thereby undergo reaction in the troposphere. In order to determine the tropospheric lifetimes of these compounds, a knowledge of their rates of reactions with OH radicals is required. In this work the rate con

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