title: Observation of organosulfur products (thiovinoxy, thioketene and thioformyl) in crossed-beam experiments and low temperature rate coefficients for the reaction S(1D) + C2H4.
abstract: The reaction between excited sulfur atoms, S((1)D), and the simplest alkene molecule, ethene, has been investigated in a complementary fashion in (a) crossed-beam dynamic experiments with mass spectrometric detection and time-of-flight (TOF) analysis at a collision energy of 37.0 kJ mol(-1), (b) low temperature kinetic experiments ranging from room temperature down to 23 K, and (c) electronic structure calculations of stationary points and product energetics on the C(2)H(4)S singlet potential energy surface. The rate coefficients for total loss of S((1)D) are found to be very large (ca. 4 x 10(-10) cm(3) molecule(-1) s(-1)) down to very low temperature indicating that the overall reaction is barrier-less. From laboratory angular and TOF distributions at different product masses, three competing reaction channels leading to H + CH(2)CHS (thiovinoxy), H(2) + CH(2)CS (thioketene), and CH(3) + HCS (thioformyl) have been unambiguously identified and their dynamics characterized. Branching ratios have also been estimated. These studies, which exploit the capability of producing intense supersonic beams of sulfur S((3)P,(1)D) atoms and measuring rate coefficients down to very low temperature, offer considerable promise for further dynamical investigations of other sulfur atom reactions of particular relevance to combustion and atmospheric chemistry.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Leonori
authors.forename: Raffaele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Petrucci
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Balucani
authors.forename: Piergiorgio
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Casavecchia
authors.forename: Marzio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rosi
authors.forename: Coralie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Berteloite
authors.forename: Sébastien D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Le Picard
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Canosa
authors.forename: Ian R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Sims