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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Physical Chemistry A Année : 2017

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Growth by Diradical Cycloaddition/Fragmentation

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The recent theoretical and experimental investigations on the growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in pyrolytic environments highlight the possible role of the 1,4-cycloaddition/fragmentation (1,4-CAF) steps in the formation of PAH intermediates and consequently soot. The present theoretical study explores the possibility to generalize such mechanism to reactions involving various diradical compounds and stable multiring structures. The calculations were performed using the uB3LYP/6-311G(d,p) method and different composite methods, when possible, for more accurate energy estimates. First, the complex potential energy surface for the reactions between o-benzyne and naphthalene was investigated, including the 1,4-CAF mechanism to form anthracene and acetylene through the dibenzobicyclo[2.2.2]octatriene intermediate. Moreover, the products of the addition reactions to the α- and β-carbons and to the ring-junction atoms were determined. The energies for the optimized CAF structures, which constitute the most-favorable pathway from an energetic point of view, were calculated using CBS-QB3, G3(MP2)B3, and G3B3 methods and compared to the corresponding values for the o-benzyne + benzene reactions. Additional calculations were focused on the possible CAF reactions between o-benzyne and larger multiring structures, such as anthracene, phenanthrene, pyrene, and the four-ring PAHs. The results indicate how the energetics of such reactions is influenced by both the size of the PAH compound and the position of the carbon atoms involved. In the second part of the study, the energy barriers necessary to form multiring diradicals from the corresponding radical molecules were analyzed at a G3(MP2)B3 level of theory. Such calculations are preliminary for the subsequent study on the CAF reactions between the different diradical intermediates and benzene. While the size of the diradical does not affect significantly the energy barriers, the position of the diradical site is critical. The concerted Diels–Alder reactions between the naphthynes and naphthalene were also studied in order to further clarify the analogies between the reactions involving different diradicals. Based on these results, kinetic considerations were provided based on the comparison with the simpler o-benzyne + benzene system, although further higher-level calculations and master equation kinetic analyses will be required to derive the general kinetic rules.
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hal-02417176 , version 1 (08-02-2022)

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A. Comandini, S. Abid, N. Chaumeix. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Growth by Diradical Cycloaddition/Fragmentation. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2017, 121 (31), pp.5921-5931. ⟨10.1021/acs.jpca.7b05562⟩. ⟨hal-02417176⟩
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