Abstract
The reaction of CH radical with O2 has been experimentally investigated by time-resolved Fourier transform IR emission spectroscopy. CH radicals were generated by multi-photon UV laser photolysis of bromoform (CHBr3) in gaseous phase. Highly vibrationally excited product CO (v =1-12) with a near Boltzmann distribution was observed after the reaction. The vibrational temperature of CO is estimated as high as 14400±1400 K and the averaged vibrational energy is about 25.8 kcal=·mol−1. The emission intensity of CO is not sensitive to the quenching gas, which indicates that there is no early barrier in the reaction of CH+O2. However, the theoretically predicted product CO2 has not been found in the experiment.
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