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Radiolytic formation of the carbon dioxide radical anion in acetonitrile revealed by transient IR spectroscopy.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP 2018 April 19
The solvated electron in CH3CN is scavenged by CO2 with a rate constant of 3.2 × 1010 M-1 s-1 to produce the carbon dioxide radical anion (CO2˙-), a strong and versatile reductant. Using pulse radiolysis with time-resolved IR detection, this radical is unambiguously identified by its absorption band at 1650 cm-1 corresponding to the antisymmetric CO2˙- stretch. This assignment is confirmed by 13C isotopic labelling experiments and DFT calculations. In neat CH3CN, CO2˙- decays on a ∼10 μs time scale via recombination with solvent-derived radicals (R˙) and solvated protons. Upon addition of formate (HCO2-), the radiation yield of CO2˙- is substantially increased due to H-atom abstraction by R˙ from HCO2- (R˙ + HCO2- → RH + CO2˙-), which occurs in two kinetically separated steps. The rapid step involves the stronger H-abstracting CN˙, CH3˙, and possibly, H˙ primary radicals, while the slower step is due to the less reactive, but more abundant radical, CH2CN˙. The removal of solvent radicals by HCO2- also results in over a hundredfold increase in the CO2˙- lifetime. CO2˙- scavenging experiments suggest that at 50 mM HCO2-, about 60% of the solvent-derived radicals are engaged in CO2˙- generation. Even under CO2 saturation, no formation of the radical adduct, (CO2)2˙-, could be detected on the microsecond time scale.
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