Criegee kinetics paper published in JPCA

Our new paper describing the kinetics of reactions of CH2OO with ketones and diketones has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. We find rate constants for the β-diketone reactions that are similar to that of acetone, while those for the α-diketones are around 30 times larger. The trends are interpreted using frontier molecular orbital theory.

You can read the paper here: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05280