Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1996, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 777.

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A Theoretical Study of the Decompositions of CF3CO and CF3C(O)O Radicals

MA Ao, SUN Li-Peng, WANG Yi-Xuan, LIU Cheng-Bu, DENG Cong-Hao   

  1. Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Shandong University, Jinan 250100
  • Received:1995-05-29 Online:1996-05-24 Published:1996-05-24

Abstract: Ozone in the stratosphere is important to the life of human being and the radicals CF3CO and CF3C(O)O may play iniportant roles in the removal of ozone by participating in the circular catalytic reactions of the degradation of ozone.So it is essential to make clear the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the decomposition reactions of the two radicals.Several experimental results had been reported on these reactions,but these results are quite different from each other.Theoretically,these reactions liad been studied by using ab initio method at 6-31G* level and the correlation energy was considered with PMP2. In this paper,the thermodynamic and kinetic data of the reactions had been calculated over the temperature interval from 100 Kto 1500 Kbased on statistical thermodynamics and transition state theory by using the data obtained from ab initio calculation.The thermodynamic and kinetic data of these reactions such as Kp and kr had been obtained.The result of calculation is well consistent with the latest experimental data and the conclusion was drawn that both CF3COand CF3(O)Oradicals are too unstable to participate in the catalytic cycles of the removal of ozone in the stratosphere.

Key words: Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Decomposition reaction

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