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A Combined Experimental and Computational Study on the Reaction Dynamics of the 1-Propynyl (CH 3 CC)–Acetylene (HCCH) System and the Formation of Methyldiacetylene (CH 3 CCCCH)

We investigated the 1-propynyl (CH 3 CC; X 2 A 1 ) plus acetylene/acetylene-d 2 (HCCH/DCCD; X 1 Σg + ) under single-collision conditions using the crossed molecular beams method. The reaction was found to produce C 5 H 4 plus atomic hydrogen (H) via an indirect reaction mechanism with a reaction energy of -123 ± 18 kJ mol –1 . Using the DCCD isotopologue, we confirmed that the hydrogen atom is lost from the acetylene reactant. Our computational analysis suggests the reaction proceeds by the barrierless addition of the 1-propynyl radical to acetylene, resulting in C 5 H 5 intermediate(s) that dissociate preferentially to methyldiacetylene (CH 3 CCCCH; X 1 A 1 ) via hydrogen atom emission with a computed reaction energy of -123 ± 4 kJ mol –1 . The barrierless nature of this reaction scheme suggests the 1-propynyl radical may be a key intermediate in hydrocarbon chain growth in cold molecular clouds like TMC-1, where methyl-substituted (poly)acetylenes are known to exist.

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