Author(s)

F. Bohr, J. Brion, B. Delcroix, P. Devolder, C. Fittschen, N. Gomez and E. Henon

Abstract

Abstraction Reactions of CFTjO Radicals with Formaldehyde and Acetaldehyde: Experimental and Molecular Orbital Studies A contribution to subproject CMD F Bohr^, J Brion^, B Delcroix*, P Devolder\ C Fittschen', N. Gomez* and E Henon^ * Centre d'Etude et Recherche Lasers et Applications (CERLA), Universite de Sciences et Technologies de Lille - F 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France * Laboratoire de Chimie Physique - GSMA - UPRES-A 6089, Universite de Reims - BP 1039 - F 51687 Reims, France Abstract The rate constants for the reaction of methoxy radicals (CHgO) with CI^O (Rl) and CHgCHO (R2) have been measured by two different techniques: laser photolysis (LP) and fast flow reactor (FF), both using laser induced fluorescence (LIF) to monitor CHsO radicals. Both sets of experiments are in excellent agreement and lead to a pressure independent rate constant of *i =

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