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Quantum chemical study of the reaction paths and kinetics of acetaldehyde formation on a methanol-water ice model
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Ben Chouikha, I. (author)
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Kerkeni, B. (author)
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Ouerfelli, G. (author)
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Makroni, L. (author)
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- Nyman, Gunnar, 1957 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för kemi och molekylärbiologi,Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology
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- 2022
- 2022
- English.
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In: RSC Advances. - : Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). - 2046-2069. ; 12:29, s. 18994-19005
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- Acetaldehyde (CH3CHO) is ubiquitous in interstellar space and is important for astrochemistry as it can contribute to the formation of amino acids through reaction with nitrogen containing chemical species. Quantum chemical and reaction kinetics studies are reported for acetaldehyde formation from the chemical reaction of C(P-3) with a methanol molecule adsorbed at the eighth position of a cubic water cluster. We present extensive quantum chemical calculations for total spin S = 1 and S = 0. The U omega B97XD/6-311++G(2d,p) model chemistry is employed to optimize the structures, compute minimum energy paths and zero-point vibrational energies of all reaction steps. For the optimized structures, the calculated energies are refined by CCSD(T) single point computations. We identify four transition states on the triplet potential energy surface (PES), and one on the singlet PES. The reaction mechanism involves the intermediate formation of CH3OCH adsorbed on the ice cluster. The rate limiting step for forming acetaldehyde is the C-O bond breaking in CH3OCH to form adsorbed CH3 and HCO. We find two positions on the reaction path where spin crossing may be possible such that acetaldehyde can form in its singlet spin state. Using variational transition-state theory with multidimensional tunnelling we provide thermal rate constants for the energetically rate limiting step for both spin states and discuss two routes to acetaldehyde formation. As expected, quantum effects are important at low temperatures.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Andra medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine -- Other Basic Medicine (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- complex organic-molecules
- prebiotic synthesis
- ethylene-oxide
- vinyl
- alcohol
- interstellar
- transition
- chemistry
- phase
- hco
- ch3
- Chemistry
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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