title: Gas-phase kinetics of chlorosilylene reactions. I. ClSiH + Me3SiH: absolute rate measurements and theoretical calculations for prototype Si-H insertion reactions.
abstract: Time-resolved studies of chlorosilylene, ClSiH, generated by the 193 nm laser flash photolysis of 1-chloro-1-silacyclopent-3-ene, have been carried out to obtain rate constants for its bimolecular reaction with trimethylsilane, Me(3)SiH, in the gas phase. The reaction was studied at total pressures up to 100 torr (with and without added SF(6)) over the temperature range 297-407 K. The rate constants were found to be pressure independent and gave the following Arrhenius equation: log(k/cm(3) molecule(-1) s(-1)) = (-13.97 +/- 0.25) + (12.57 +/- 1.64) kJ mol(-1)/RT ln 10. The Arrhenius parameters are consistent with a mechanism involving an intermediate complex, whose rearrangement is the rate-determining step. Quantum chemical calculations of the potential energy surface for this reaction and also the reactions of ClSiH with SiH(4) and the other methylsilanes support this conclusion. Comparisons of both experiment and theory with the analogous Si-H insertion processes of SiH(2) and SiMe(2) show that the main factor causing the lower reactivity of ClSiH is the secondary energy barrier. The calculations also show the existence of a novel intramolecular H-atom exchange process in the complex of ClSiH with MeSiH(3).
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Quimica-Fisica Rocasolano, CSIC, C/Serrano 119, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Becerra
authors.forename: Sergey E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Boganov
authors.forename: Mikhail P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Egorov
authors.forename: Valery I
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authors.lastname: Faustov
authors.forename: Irina V
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authors.lastname: Krylova
authors.forename: Oleg M
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authors.lastname: Nefedov
authors.forename: Vladimir M
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authors.lastname: Promyslov
authors.forename: Robin
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authors.lastname: Walsh