Kinetics And Mechanisms Of The OH Radical Initiated Degradation Of A Series Of Hydrofluoroethers
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Free (open access)
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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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