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Abstract
Criegee intermediates play an important role in the tropospheric oxidation models through their reactions with atmospheric trace chemicals. We develop a global full-dimensional potential energy surface for the CH2OO + SO2 system and reveal how the reaction happens step by step by quasi-classical trajectory simulations. A new pathway forming the main products (CH2O + SO3) and a new product channel (CO2 + H2 + SO2) are predicted in our simulations. The new pathway appears at collision energies greater than 10 kcal/mol whose behavior demonstrates a typical barrier-controlled reaction. This threshold is also consistent with the ab initio transition state barrier height. For the minor products, a loose complex OCH2O ∙ ∙ ∙ SO2 is formed first, and then in most cases it soon turns into HCOOH + SO2, in a few cases it decomposes into CO2 + H2 + SO2 which is a new product channel, and rarely it remains as ∙OCH2O ∙ + SO2. Criegee intermediates such as CH2OO play an important role in tropospheric oxidation models through their reactions with atmospheric trace chemicals. Here, the authors develop a global full-dimensional potential energy surface for the CH2OO + SO2 system, reveal how the reaction happens step by step using quasi-classical trajectory simulations, to show a new direct stripping pathway forming the main products CH2O and SO3 and a new product channel.
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