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Published January 17, 2019 | Supplemental Material
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Intramolecular Hydrogen Shift Chemistry of Hydroperoxy-Substituted Peroxy Radicals

Abstract

Gas-phase autoxidation – the sequential regeneration of peroxy radicals (RO_2) via intramolecular hydrogen shifts (H-shifts) followed by oxygen addition – leads to the formation of organic hydroperoxides. The atmospheric fate of these peroxides remains unclear, including the potential for further H-shift chemistry. Here, we report H-shift rate coefficients for a system of RO_2 with hydroperoxide functionality produced in the OH-initiated oxidation of 2-hydroperoxy-2-methylpentane. The initial RO_2 formed in this chemistry are unable to undergo α-OOH H-shift (HOOC–H) reactions. However, these RO_2 rapidly isomerize (>100 s^(–1) at 296 K) by H-shift of the hydroperoxy hydrogen (ROO–H) to produce a hydroperoxy-substituted RO_2 with an accessible α-OOH hydrogen. First order rate coefficients for the 1,5 H-shift of the α-OOH hydrogen are measured to be ∼0.04 s^(–1) (296 K) and ∼0.1 s^(–1) (318 K), within 50% of the rate coefficients calculated using multiconformer transition state theory. Reaction of the RO_2 with NO produces alkoxy radicals which also undergo rapid isomerization via 1,6 and 1,5 H-shift of the hydroperoxy hydrogen (ROO–H) to produce RO_2 with alcohol functionality. One of these hydroxy-substituted RO_2 exhibits a 1,5 α-OH (HOC–H) H-shift, measured to be ∼0.2 s^(–1) (296 K) and ∼0.6 s^(–1) (318 K), again in agreement with the calculated rates. Thus, the rapid shift of hydroperoxy hydrogens in alkoxy and peroxy radicals enables intramolecular reactions that would otherwise be inaccessible.

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© 2018 American Chemical Society. Received: October 5, 2018; Revised: December 10, 2018; Published: December 14, 2018. J.C.H. thanks the Camille and Henry Dreyfus postdoctoral program in Environmental Chemistry for support. We acknowledge funding from the National Science Foundation (Grant CHE-1508526), the University of Copenhagen, and the Danish Center for Scientific Computing. The authors declare no competing financial interest. The wB97X-D/aug-cc-pVTZ optimizations and frequencies and the CCSD(T)-F12a/VDZ-F12 single point energy calculations are available at https://sid.erda.dk/public/archives/4f4b98346d6b007ba44411c642b39fa1/published-archive.html.

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