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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shannon, R. J
• Gómez Martín, J. C
• Caravan, R. L
• Blitz, M. A
• Plane, J. M. C
• Heard, D. E
• Antiñolo, M
• Agúndez, M
• Jiménez, E
• Ballesteros, B
• Canosa, A
• El Dib, G
• Albaladejo, J
• Cernicharo, J

Titel

Comment on "Methanol dimer formation drastically enhances hydrogen abstraction from methanol by OH at low temperature" by W. Siebrand, Z. Smedarchina, E. Martínez-Núñez and A. Fernández-Ramos, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 22712

Ist Teil von

• Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 2018-03, Vol.2 (12), p.8349-8354

Ort / Verlag

England: Royal Society of Chemistry

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The article "Methanol dimer formation drastically enhances hydrogen abstraction from methanol by OH at low temperature" proposes a dimer mediated mechanism in order to explain the large low temperature rate coefficients for the OH + methanol reaction measured by several groups. It is demonstrated here theoretically that under the conditions of these low temperature experiments, there are insufficient dimers formed for the proposed new mechanism to apply. Experimental evidence is also presented to show that dimerization of the methanol reagent does not influence the rate coefficients reported under the conditions of methanol concentration used for the kinetics studies. It is also emphasised that the low temperature experiments have been performed using both the Laval nozzle expansion and flow-tube methods, with good agreement found for the rate coefficients measured using these two distinct techniques. A low fraction of methanol dimers is formed in the Laval nozzle used for kinetics studies at very low temperatures.