摘要:
The kinetics of the N2O3 + M = NO + NO2 + M reaction has been studied over a wide range of pressure by a laser-induced temperature jump relaxation method. Equilibrium mixtures at 225 K containing nitrogen dioxide, dinitrogen trioxide, dinitrogen tetroxide, nitric oxide, a small quantity of SiF4 as an IR absorber, and an excess of argon as a third-body gas collider are rapidly heated by a short pulse Of CO2 laser radiation. The induced temperature jump, between 0.5 and 3 K, displaces the equilibrium toward NO2 and NO formation. The rate of relaxation to the new equilibrium concentrations at higher temperature is monitored by observing spectroscopically the time dependence of the N2O3 concentration in the UV. For small perturbations, simple mathematics relates the measured chemical relaxation time constant to the thermal rate constants of the N2O3 + M = NO + NO2 + M system. Experimental results, obtained in the 0.5-200 bar pressure range of argon corresponding to the third-order and falloff region of the reaction have been fitted by falloff curves established according to a method developed by Troe. The following high- and low-pressure limiting rate constants for the NO + NO2 recombination at 227 K are extrapolated from the experimental data: k(rec,infinity) = (3.5 +/- 1.0) X 10(12) cm3 mol-1 s-1 and k(rec,o)/[Ar] = (1.0 +/- 0.5) X 10(15) CM3 Mol-1 s-1, respectively. These values lie within a factor of 2 of those that may be predicted using a simplified statistic adiabatic channel (SAC) model. The temperature dependence of the recombination rate constant, measured experimentally between 227 and 260 K, yields the following expressions for the high-pressure and the low-pressure limiting rate constants, respectively: k(rec,infinity)(T) = (1.6(+1.6/-0.5)) X 10(9)T(1.4+/-0.2)CM3 mol-1 s-1, and k(rec,o)(T)/[Ar] = (1.0(+1.0/-0.6)) X 10(33-T-(7.7+/-0.8) cm3 mol-1 s-1.