Volume 245, 2023

A systematic mechanistic survey on the reactions between OH radical and CH3OH on ice

Abstract

A systematic mechanistic survey was performed for the CH3OH + OH reaction on ice. ONIOM(ωB97X-D/Def2-TZVP:AMOEBA09) calculations suggested a range of binding energies for the CH2OH radical (0.29–0.69 eV) and CH3OH (0.15–0.72 eV) molecule on hexagonal water ice (Ih) and amorphous solid water (ASW). Computed average binding energies of CH2OH radical (0.49 eV) and CH3OH (0.41 eV) are relatively stronger compared to the CH3O radical binding energies (0.32 eV, Sameera et al., J. Phy. Chem. A, 2021, 125, 387–393). Thus, the CH3OH molecule, CH2OH and CH3O radicals can adsorb on ice, where the binding energies follow the order CH2OH > CH3OH > CH3O. The multi-component artificial force-induced reaction (MC-AFIR) method systematically determined the reaction mechanisms for the CH3OH + OH reaction on ice, where two reaction paths, giving rise to CH2OH and CH3O radicals, were confirmed. A range of reaction barriers, employing the ωB97X-D/Def2-TZVP level of theory, was found for each reaction (0.03–0.11 eV for CH2OH radical formation, and 0.03–0.44 eV for CH3O radical formation). Based on the lowest energy reaction paths, we suspect that both reactions operate on ice. The computed data in this study evidence that the nature of the binding site or the reaction site has a significant effect on the computed binding energies or reaction barriers. Thus, the outcomes of the present study will be very useful for the computational astrochemistry community to determine reliable binding energies and reaction barriers on ice.

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Feb 2023
Accepted
17 Mar 2023
First published
18 Mar 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Faraday Discuss., 2023,245, 508-518

A systematic mechanistic survey on the reactions between OH radical and CH3OH on ice

W. M. C. Sameera, A. P. Jayaweera, A. Ishibashi, H. Hidaka, Y. Oba and N. Watanabe, Faraday Discuss., 2023, 245, 508 DOI: 10.1039/D3FD00033H

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