Experimental study of C2Cl3+NO2 reaction

The free radical reaction Of C2Cl3 with NO2 was investigated by step-scan time-resolved FTIR (TR-FTIR) emission spectroscopy. Due to the vibrationally excited products Of Cl2CO, NO, and CO, strong IR emission bands were observed with high resolution TR-FTIR spectra. Four reaction channels forming C2Cl3O+NO, CCl3CO+NO, CO+NO+CCl3, and ClCNO+Cl2CO were elucidated, respectively. Spectral fitting showed that the product CO was highly vibrationally excited with the nascent average vibrational energy of 60.2 kJ/mol. Possible reaction mechanism via intermediates C2Cl3NO2 and C2Cl3ONO was proposed