Rate constant ozone with cycloalkenes

Atkinson, R., Aschmann, S.M., Carter, W.L., Pitts, Jr., J.N. (1983) Effects of ring strain on gas-phase rate constants. 1. Ozone reactions with cycloalkenes. Int. J. Chem. Kinet. 15, 721-731. 

The rate constants for oxidation of a series of cycloalkenes with ozone have been determined using a relative rate method. The effect of methyl substitution on the oxidation of cycloalkenes and formation of secondary organic aerosols has been analysed.155 Butadiene, styrene, cyclohexene, allyl acetate, methyl methacrylate, and allyl alcohol were epoxidized in a gas-phase reaction with ozone in the absence of a catalyst. With the exception of allyl alcohol, the yield of the corresponding epoxide ranged from 88 to 97%.156 Kinetic control of distereoselection in ozonolytic lactonization has been (g) reported in the reaction of prochiral alkenes.157... 

As part of an investigation into the reaction of ozone with alkenes, the temperature dependence of the rate constants for the reaction of O3 with a series of cycloalkenes and the formation yields for OH radicals in these reactions have been obtained in the present work. 

Room temperature rate constants and Arrhenius parameters for the gas-phase reactions of ozone with cw-2-butene, 2-methyl-2-butene and a number of cycloalkenes are shown in Table 1 together with the literature values. The rate coefficients for cw-2-butene and 2-methyl-2-butene are in excellent agreement with the data evaluation of Atkinson and Carter [3]. The reported room temperature rate constants for the reaction of ozone with cyclopentene and cyclohexene show a considerable degree of scatter. The present results for cyclopentene provide support for the recent determinations by Bennett et al [24], Nolting et al [25], and Green and Atkinson [21], while the value for cycloheptene is slightly lower than the reported values [20] and [25]. No previous kinetic studies have been carried out on the reactions of O3 with cw-cyclooctene and cw-cyclodecene. 

Rate constants for the reaction of O3 with a number of substituted cycloalkenes were also determined in this work. From the results, the magnitude of the rate constant depends on the nature of the substituent and its position on the ring. As expected, substitution of a hydrogen atom attached at the 1 position in cyclopentene by an electron-withdrawing chlorine atom decreases the reactivity for reaction with the electrophilic ozone molecule. This would appear to be due to both a decrease in the pre-exponential factor and an increase in activation energy. 

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