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Thermal Formation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Cyclopentadiene (CPD)

  • Kim, Do-Hyong (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology) ;
  • Kim, Jeong-Kwon (Department of Environmental Engineering, Dong-Eui University) ;
  • Jang, Seong-Ho (Department of Regional Environmental System Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Mulholland, James A. (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology) ;
  • Ryu, Jae-Yong (R&D Planning & Management Office, Korea Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (KIEST))
  • Published : 2007.12.31
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Abstract

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon growth from cyclopentadiene (CPD) pyrolysis was investigated using a laminar flow reactor operating in a temperature range of 600 to $950^{\circ}c$. Major products from CPD pyrolysis are benzene, indene and naphthalene. Formation of observed products from CPD is explained as follows. Addition of the cyclopentadienyl radical to a CPD $\pi$-bond produces a resonance-stabilized radical, which further reacts by one of three unimolecular channels: intramolecular addition, C-H bond $\beta$-scission, or C-C bond $\beta$-scission. The intramolecular addition pathway produces a 7-norbornenyl radical, which then decomposes to indene. Decomposition by C-H bond $\beta$-scission produces a biaryl intermediate, which then undergoes a ring fusion sequence that has been proposed for dihydrofulvalene-to-naphthalene conversion. In this study, we propose C-C bond $\beta$-scission pathway as an alternative reaction channel to naphthalene from CPD. As preliminary computational analysis, Parametric Method 3 (PM3) molecular calculation suggests that intramolecular addition to form indene is favored at low temperatures and C-C bond $\beta$-scission leading to naphthalene is predominant at high temperatures.

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