Time-Resolved FTIR Study on the Reaction of CHCl2 with NO2

The environmentally important free radical reaction of chlorinated methyl CHCl2 with NO2was investigated by step-scan time-resolved FTIR (TR-FTIR) emission spectroscopy. Vibrationally excited products of CHClO, NO, CO, and HCl are observed in the high-resolution IR emission spectra and three possible reaction channels are therefore elucidated. In particular,the product CO is newly detected and the product HCl is identified explicitly as a yield from the CHCl2+NO2 reaction, taking advantage of the sensitive detection of HCl and CO with TR-FTIR. These results are of particular interests to understand the related realistic chemical processes including atmospheric photochemistry, biofuel combustion, waste destruction,and smoking fire.