ملخص: Since ion-neutral reactions are a major component of the processes driving interstellar chemistry, most reaction network include protonated species. Besides, these ions are able to initiate chemical processes that would not occur with their neutral parents. In this contribution we report a systematic study of the protonated adducts of the OCnO series (n=3-8) using the B3LYP level of theory. The structures of all possible O-protonated and C-protonated isomers of [OCnOH+] have been determined together with their rotational constants, vibrational frequencies and intensities. Although it appears that these ions belong to two different series, odd-n and even-n, it is found that protonation occurs at the carbons second to the terminal oxygens for all n. The most stable structure is found to be the singlet ion whatever the singlet or triplet spin state of the parent species. However, due to the lack of efficient spin-orbit coupling, only the odd series [OCnOH+] with n=3,5,7 should be formed on the singlet ground state surface. Analysis of the infrared intensities shows that the spectra are dominated by only one or two very strong bands (CC stretching) that carry most of the overall intensity in the 2200-2350 cm-1 region.

لغة: إنجليزية