Spectroscopic and kinetic studies of a new metastable species in the photooxidation of gaseous formaldehyde - Su, F.; Calvert, J.G.; Shaw, J.H.; Niki, H.; Maker, P.D.; Savage, C.M.; Breitenbach, L.D. (Elsevier)
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy has been employed to study the mechanism of formaldehyde photooxidation in dilute gaseous mixtures of Cl"2 and CH"2O (ppm level) and H"2, O"2, and N"2 (P"T ~ 700 Torr), temperature, 25 +/- 2^oC. Infrared absorption bands due to a new metastable compound were observed in addition to those of the expected products: HCl, HCO"2H, CO, and H"2O"2. The transient species was tentatively identified as hydroperoxy-hydroxy-methane (HO"2CH"2OH), which was presumably formed through the reaction, HO"2 + O"2CH"2OH -〉 HO"2CH"2OH + O"2.
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