RT Journal Article
T1 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
A1 Siebrand, Willem
A1 Smedarchina, Zorka
A1 Ferro Costas, David
A1 Martínez Núñez, Emilio
A1 Fernández Ramos, Antonio
AB 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
PB Royal Society of Chemistry
SN 1463-9076
YR 2018
FD 2018-02-22
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16959
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16959
LA eng
NO 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
NO This work was partially supported by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain (Research Grant No CTQ2014-58617-R), the Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria (Centro singular de investigación de Galicia acreditación 2016-2019, ED431G/09) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). D. F.-C. also thanks Xunta de Galicia for financial support through a postdoctoral grant
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