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  • Title: Determination of the electron affinities of alpha- and beta-naphthyl radicals using the kinetic method with full entropy analysis. The C-H bond dissociation energies of naphthalene.
    Author: Lardin HA, Squires RR, Wenthold PG.
    Journal: J Mass Spectrom; 2001 Jun; 36(6):607-15. PubMed ID: 11433533.
    Abstract:
    The C - H bond dissociation energies for naphthalene were determined using a negative ion thermochemical cycle involving the gas-phase acidity (Delta H (acid)) and electron affinity (EA) for both the alpha- and beta-positions. The gas-phase acidity of the naphthalene alpha- and beta-positions and the EAs of the alpha- and beta-naphthyl radicals were measured in the gas phase in a flowing after glow-triple quadrupole apparatus. A variation of the Cooks kinetic method was used to measure the EAs of the naphthyl radicals by collision-induced dissociation of the corresponding alpha- and beta-naphthylsulfinate adducts formed by reactions in the flow tube portion of the instrument. Calibration references included both pi and sigma radicals, and full entropy analysis was performed over a series of calibration curves measured at collision energies ranging from 3.5 to 8 eV (center-of-mass). The measured EAs are 33.0 +/- 1.4 and 31.4 +/- 1.0 kcal mol(-1) (1 kcal = 4.184 kJ) for the alpha- and beta-naphthyl radicals, respectively. The gas-phase acidities for naphthalene were measured by the DePuy silane cleavage method, which utilizes the relative abundances of aryldimethylsiloxides and trimethylsiloxide that result from competitive cleavages from a proposed penta coordinate hydroxysiliconate intermediate. The measured acidities are 394.0 +/- 5.0 and 397.6 +/- 4.8 kcal mol(-1) for the alpha- and beta- positions, respectively. The C - H bond dissociation energies calculated from the thermochemical cycle are 113.4 +/- 5.2 and 115.4 +/- 4.9 kcal mol(-1) for the alpha- and beta-positions, respectively. These energies are, to within experimental error, indistinguishable and are approximately the same as the first bond dissociation energy for benzene.
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