Selected ion flow tube study of ion-molecule reactions of N(+)(3P) and Kr+ with C3 hydrocarbons propane, propene, and propyne.

Reactions of (14)N(+)((3)P), (15)N(+)((3)P), and Kr(+) with propane, propene, and propyne were studied using the selected ion flow tube, SIFT, technique. Thermal rate constants in all N(+)/C(3) systems were k = (2 ± 0.4) × 10(-9) cm(3) molecule(-1) s(-1), close to the collisional rate constants. With propane and propene, only hydrocarbon ions were found among the products of reactions with N(+); in propyne about 15% of the products were N-containing ions (C(3)H(2)N(+), C(2)H(4)N(+), C(2)H(3)N(+), C(2)H(2)N(+)), and the rest were hydrocarbon ions. A comparison with product ions from electron transfer between Kr(+) (of recombination energy similar to that for N(+)((3)P)) and the C(3) hydrocarbons and further analysis of the results led to an estimation of an approximate ratio of electron transfer vs hydride-ion transfer reactions leading to the hydrocarbon product ions: in propane the ratio was 2:1, in propene 3:1, and in propyne 5:1. A fraction of product ions resulted from reactions leading to the excited neutral product N*.

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