THE GAS-PHASE REACTION OF UNSATURATED OXYGENATES WITH OZONE - CARBONYL PRODUCTS AND COMPARISON WITH THE ALKENE-OZONE REACTION

Carbonyl products have been identified and their formation yields meas ured in the gas phase reaction of ozone with unsaturated oxygenates in experiments carried out at ambient T, p = 1 atm. of purified humid ai r (RH = 50%) and with sufficient cyclohexane added to scavenge the hyd roxyl radical. The compounds studied are the esters methyl acrylate, v inyl acetate and cis-3-hexenyl acetate, the carbonyl crotonaldehyde, t he hydroxy-substituted diene linalool, the ether ethylvinyl ether and the keto-ether trans-4-methoxy-3-buten-2-one. The alkene l-pentene was included fr comparison. The nature and formation yields of the carbon yl products from this study and those measured in earlier work under t he same conditions are compared to those of alkenes and are supportive of a reaction mechanism that is similar to that for the reaction of o zone with alkenes, i.e. O-3 + R1R2C=CR3X --> alpha(R1COR2 + R3XCOO) (1 - alpha)(R3COX + R1R2COO), where R-i are the alkyl substituents, X is the oxygen-containing substituent (-CHO for aldehydes; -C(O)R for k etones: -C(O)OR and -OC(O)R for esters; -OH and hydroxyalkyl for alcoh ols; and -OR for ethers), R1COR2 is the primary carbonyl, R3COX is the other primary product and R1R2COO and R3XCOO are the carbonyl oxide b iradicals. The biradicals lead to carbonyls in reactions that are also analogous to those involved in carbonyl formation from biradicals in the ozone-alkene reaction. These features make it possible to predict the nature and formation yields of the major carbonyl products of the reaction of ozone with unsaturated oxygenates that may be components o f biogenic emissions.