Reply to the ‘Comment on “Methanol dimer formation drastically enhances hydrogen abstraction from methanol by OH at low temperature”’ by D. Heard, R. Shannon, J. Gomez Martin, R. Caravan, M. Blitz, J. Plane, M. Antiñolo, M. Agundez, E. Jimenez, B. Ballesteros, A. Canosa, G. El Dib, J. Albaladejo and J. Cernicharo, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, DOI: 10.1039/C7CP04561A
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16959
Files in this item
Metadata
Title: | Reply to the ‘Comment on “Methanol dimer formation drastically enhances hydrogen abstraction from methanol by OH at low temperature”’ by D. Heard, R. Shannon, J. Gomez Martin, R. Caravan, M. Blitz, J. Plane, M. Antiñolo, M. Agundez, E. Jimenez, B. Ballesteros, A. Canosa, G. El Dib, J. Albaladejo and J. Cernicharo, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, DOI: 10.1039/C7CP04561A |
Author: | Siebrand, Willem Smedarchina, Zorka Ferro Costas, David Martínez Núñez, Emilio Fernández Ramos, Antonio |
Affiliation: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Centro de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e Materiais Moleculares Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Química Física |
Date of Issue: | 2018-02-22 |
Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
Citation: | Siebrand, W., Smedarchina, Z., Ferro-Costas, D., Martínez-Núñez, E., & Fernández-Ramos, A. (2018). Reply to the ‘Comment on “Methanol dimer formation drastically enhances hydrogen abstraction from methanol by OH at low temperature”’ by D. Heard, R. Shannon, J. Gomez Martin, R. Caravan, M. Blitz, J. Plane, M. Antiñolo, M. Agundez, E. Jimenez, B. Ballesteros, A. Canosa, G. El Dib, J. Albaladejo and J. Cernicharo, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, DOI: 10.1039/C7CP04561A. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(12), 8355-8357. doi: 10.1039/c8cp00519b |
Abstract: | In this Reply we answer the two main arguments raised in the Comment. The first argument is related to the binding energy of the methanol dimer and its influence on the dimerization rate constant. We show that the dimerization rate constants calculated in the Comment are unphysically low. We report values that are about two orders of magnitude higher than the values of the Comment, which confirm the conclusions of the original article that dimers can be present in a small amount. The second argument based on the dependence of the pseudo-first order rates on the methanol concentration was already explained in detail in the Supporting Information of the original article |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CP00519B |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16959 |
DOI: | 10.1039/C8CP00519B |
ISSN: | 1463-9076 |
E-ISSN: | 1463-9084 |
Rights: | © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2018 |
Collections
-
- CIQUS-Artigos [394]
- QF-Artigos [108]