Tsai, Shih-Yi published the artcileHydrogen-Atom-Assisted Uphill Isomerization of N-Methylformamide in Darkness, Safety of N-Methylformamide, the main research area is hydrogen atom assisted uphill isomerization methylformamide in darkness.
N-Methylformamide, HC(O)NH(CH3), is the smallest amide detected in the interstellar medium that can exist as cis and trans isomers. We performed reactions of H atoms with trans-NMF in solid para-hydrogen at 3.3 K and found that the cis-NMF isomer, which has higher energy, increased continuously in darkness, demonstrating a previously overlooked and seemingly unlikely isomerization of prebiotic mols. through H-atom tunneling reactions in the absence of light. IR spectra of radical intermediates trans-•C(O)NH(CH3) and trans-HC(O)NH(•CH2) were identified. Further H addition and H abstraction enhanced the formation of CH3NCO, HNCO, and CH2NH in the H-rich experiments These results indicate that, unlike the dual cycle of H-abstraction and H-addition channels chem. linking formamide and HNCO, the H addition to CH3NCO produced only cis-radicals that led to cis-NMF. Furthermore, H-atom-induced fragmentation by breaking the C-C bond provides links between NMF and HCNO/CH2NH. These endothermic isomerization/decomposition reactions become possible through the coupling with H + H → H2.
Journal of the American Chemical Society published new progress about Conformational transition. 123-39-7 belongs to class amides-buliding-blocks, name is N-Methylformamide, and the molecular formula is C2H5NO, Safety of N-Methylformamide.
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