Our first paper on the important CH₂I + O₂ reaction has been published in J. Phys. Chem. A. We used cavity ring-down spectroscopy to study the kinetics of IO formation, finding evidence for production both directly and sequentially after first forming CH₂OO + I. The direct mechanism appears to depend on the degree of internal energy of the photolytically generated CH₂I radical; a cautionary tale for laboratory kinetics studies that use this method to generate radical species.

You can read it here: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b05058