The reactions of cationic zirconium oxide clusters (ZrxOy^+) with ethylene (C2H4) were investigated by using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer coupled with a laser ablation/supersonic expansion cluster source. S...The reactions of cationic zirconium oxide clusters (ZrxOy^+) with ethylene (C2H4) were investigated by using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer coupled with a laser ablation/supersonic expansion cluster source. Some hydrogen containing products (ZrO2)xH^+(x=-1-4) were observed after the reaction. The density functional theory calculations indicate that apart from the common oxygen transfer reaction channel, the hydrogen abstraction channel can also occur in (ZrO2)x^++C2H4, which supports that the observed (ZrO2)xH^+ may be due to (ZrO2)x^++C2H4→(ZrO2)xH^++C2H3. The rate constants of different reaction channels were also calculated by Rice-Rarnsberger-Kassel-Marcus theory.展开更多
基金VI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was supported by the Hundred Talents fund of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.20703048, No.20803083, and No.20933008), the Center for Molecular Science Foundation of Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.CMS-CX200803), and the National Basic Research Programs of China (No.2006CB932100 and No.2006CB806200).
文摘The reactions of cationic zirconium oxide clusters (ZrxOy^+) with ethylene (C2H4) were investigated by using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer coupled with a laser ablation/supersonic expansion cluster source. Some hydrogen containing products (ZrO2)xH^+(x=-1-4) were observed after the reaction. The density functional theory calculations indicate that apart from the common oxygen transfer reaction channel, the hydrogen abstraction channel can also occur in (ZrO2)x^++C2H4, which supports that the observed (ZrO2)xH^+ may be due to (ZrO2)x^++C2H4→(ZrO2)xH^++C2H3. The rate constants of different reaction channels were also calculated by Rice-Rarnsberger-Kassel-Marcus theory.