Issue 37, 2006

The reaction products of the 193 nm photolysis of vinyl bromide and vinyl chloride studied by time-resolved Fourier transform infrared emission spectroscopy

Abstract

Time-resolved Fourier transform infrared (TRFTIR) emission spectroscopy has been used to study the 193 nm photolysis of vinyl bromide (C2H3Br) and vinyl chloride (C2H3Cl). Time-resolved IR emission was analysed to obtain nascent vibrational state populations of two primary photolysis products: HBr (v = 1–7) and HCl (v = 1–6). In both cases the nascent vibrational state populations monotonically decrease with increasing v and are in excellent agreement with previously published data. Time-resolved populations were analysed to yield rate constants for vibrational relaxation of HBr (v = 1–3) and HCl (v = 1–4) by parent vinyl bromide and vinyl chloride, respectively. In both cases the rate constants were found to increase with increasing vibrational quantum number, in agreement with a single quantum de-excitation via vibrational to vibrational energy transfer. Butadiene (C4H6) was identified as a secondary product of the photolysis of both vinyl halides, and shown to be formed from the reaction of parent vinyl halide with the vinyl radical. The presence of a buffer gas was found to produce a strong emission feature centred at 2200 cm−1, the intensity of which was dependent on the pressure of the buffer gas used, and whose kinetics are indicative of a secondary reaction product. We propose that this emission is from the vibrational progression of the electronic transition A(0, v, 1) → X(0, v, 2) in the secondary reaction product C2H, whose formation route is favoured by the presence of buffer gas.

Graphical abstract: The reaction products of the 193 nm photolysis of vinyl bromide and vinyl chloride studied by time-resolved Fourier transform infrared emission spectroscopy

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Jun 2006
Accepted
10 Aug 2006
First published
23 Aug 2006

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006,8, 4337-4346

The reaction products of the 193 nm photolysis of vinyl bromide and vinyl chloride studied by time-resolved Fourier transform infrared emission spectroscopy

A. Carvalho, G. Hancock and M. Saunders, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006, 8, 4337 DOI: 10.1039/B607882F

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