Electron Attachment to CO2 in Supercritical Ethane

Masaru Nishikawa
Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, 1030 Shimo-Ogino, Astugi 24-302, Japan
Kengo Itoh
Department of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153 Japan
Richard A. Holroyd*
Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000
J. Phys. Chem. A, 1999, 103 (4), pp 550–556
DOI: 10.1021/jp983931u
Publication Date (Web): January 12, 1999
Copyright © 1999 American Chemical Society

Abstract

Thermal electrons attach reversibly to CO2 in supercritical ethane. The equilibrium constants range from 40 to 2 × 104 m-1 for pressures from 50 to 220 bar at 33 and 37 °C. The attachment rate increases and the detachment rate decreases as the pressure increases. The lifetime of CO2- is between 20 and 100 ns in the high-pressure range. The reaction volume changes more than an order of magnitude, from −20.0 to −0.5 L/mol over the pressure and temperature ranges studied. The activation volume is approximately 50% of the reaction volume. Electrostriction volumes of the CO2- ion, calculated by a compressible continuum model, account for the main part of the observed reaction volumes. The calculation shows that the high-density region around each CO2- extends to 1 nm.

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