Hydrogenation and deuteration of solid benzene toward understanding chemical kinetics and isotopic fractionation on the surfaces of interstellar dust
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- Hama Tetsuya
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
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- Ueta Hirokazu
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
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- Watanabe Naoki
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
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- Kouchi Akira
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
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- 固体芳香族炭化水素への水素・重水素原子付加から探る星間塵表面反応の速度論と同位体分別
- コタイ ホウコウゾク タンカスイソ エ ノ スイソ ・ ジュウスイソ ゲンシ フカ カラ サグル ホシ カン ジン ヒョウメン ハンノウ ノ ソクドロン ト ドウイタイ フンベツ
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Abstract
Aromatic hydrocarbon is abundant constituent of interstellar and circumstellar dust. The hydrogenation and deuteration of interstellar aromatic hydrocarbons are of particular interest for the formation of aliphatic hydrocarbons and their deuterated isotopologues. Here, we investigated the hydrogenation/deuteration reactions of amorphous solid benzene (C6H6) at low temperatures of 10–50 K. In situ infrared spectroscopy revealed that cyclohexane or deuterated cyclohexane are efficiently formed by H or D atom addition. Given the activation barriers and low temperatures, these reactions proceeded via tunneling. However, the ratio of the hydrogenation and deuteration rates (H/D) was 1–1.5 at 15–25 K, whereas deuteration by tunneling typically occurs at a rate more than two orders of magnitude smaller than that of the comparable hydrogenation. This indicates that the isotopically insensitive surface processes (e.g., adsorption and diffusion) of the atoms physisorbed on solid C6H6 masked the tunneling kinetic isotope effect. The present results suggest that interstellar aromatic hydrocarbons can be hydrogenated or deuterated by the tunneling of H or D atoms at low temperatures, and that the tunneling kinetic isotope effect would not strongly inhibit the deuteration of interstellar aromatic hydrocarbons.
Journal
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- Chikyukagaku
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Chikyukagaku 50 (2), 33-50, 2016
The Geochemical Society of Japan
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- CRID
- 1390001205743595904
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- NII Article ID
- 130005158191
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- NII Book ID
- AN00141280
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- ISSN
- 21885923
- 03864073
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- NDL BIB ID
- 027499204
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- CiNii Articles
- KAKEN
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- Disallowed