Photochemical Reaction Pathways of Carbon Tetrabromide in Solution Probed by Picosecond X-ray Diffraction.

We report a liquid-phase time-resolved X-ray diffraction study that resolves the molecular structures of the short-lived intermediates formed in the photodissociation of tetrabromomethane in methanol. Time-resolved X-ray diffraction can detect all chemical species simultaneously, and the diffraction...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 129; no. 44; pp. 13584 - 13592
Autores principales: Qingyu Kong, Wulff, Michael, Jae Hyuk Lee, Bratos, Savo, Ihee, Hyotcherl
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Publicado: American Chemical Society 11/7/2007
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          Qingyu Kong
          Wulff, Michael
          Jae Hyuk Lee
          Bratos, Savo
          Ihee, Hyotcherl
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          European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble Cedex 38043, BP 220, France
          National Creative Research Initiative Center for Time-Resolved Diffraction, Department of Chemistry and School of Molecular Science (BK2J), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea
          Laboratoire de Physique, Théorique des Liquides, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Case Courrier 121, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris Cedex 75252, France
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        Chemical research
        Bromides
        Carbon compounds
        Chemical reactions
        Solution (Chemistry)
        X-ray diffraction
        Photochemistry
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          Chemical research
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          Carbon compounds
          Chemical reactions
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          X-ray diffraction
          Photochemistry
      ab: We report a liquid-phase time-resolved X-ray diffraction study that resolves the molecular structures of the short-lived intermediates formed in the photodissociation of tetrabromomethane in methanol. Time-resolved X-ray diffraction can detect all chemical species simultaneously, and the diffraction signal from each chemical species can be quantitatively calculated from molecular structures and compared with experimental data with high accuracy and precision. The photochemistry of carbon tetrahalides has long been explored to describe their reactions in the natural environment due to its relevance to ozone depletion. Excited with an ultraviolet optical pulse, the complicated photodissociation dynamics of CBr was followed in a wide temporal range from picoseconds up to microseconds and associated rate coefficients were determined by analyzing time-resolved diffraction patterns accumulated from 100 Ps X-ray pulses. The homolytic cleavage of one C-Br bond in the parent CBr molecule yields the CBr and Br radicals, which escape from the solvent cage and combine nongeminately to form CBr and Br, respectively. CBr eventually decays to give CBr and Br as final stable products. Our diffraction data at the current signal- to-noise ratio could not provide any evidence for the geminate recombination of the CBr and Br radicals to form the BrCBr-Br isomer or the solvated ion pair, implying that their formation is a minor channel compared with those observed clearly by time-resolved diffraction in this work.
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