Hydroxymethyl radical

• Formula: CH₃O
• Molecular weight: 31.0339
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CH3O/c1-2/h2H,1H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: CBOIHMRHGLHBPB-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 2597-43-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • Methyl radical, hydroxy-d1-
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  • Gas phase thermochemistry data
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  • Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels
  • References
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
HL - Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

View reactions leading to CH₃O⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Marilyn E. Jacox

State:   3pz

State:   ?

State:   3px

State:   3s

State:   X

Additional references: Jacox, 1994, page 237; Jacox, 1998, page 272; Jacox, 2003, page 258; Pagsberg, Munk, et al., 1989

Notes

References

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Tsang, 1996
Tsang, W., Heats of Formation of Organic Free Radicals by Kinetic Methods in Energetics of Organic Free Radicals, Martinho Simoes, J.A.; Greenberg, A.; Liebman, J.F., eds., Blackie Academic and Professional, London, 1996, 22-58. [all data]

Hunter and Lias, 1998
Hunter, E.P.; Lias, S.G., Evaluated Gas Phase Basicities and Proton Affinities of Molecules: An Update, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 3, 413-656, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556018 . [all data]

Johnson and Hudgens, 1996
Johnson, R.D., III; Hudgens, J.W., Structural and thermochemical properties of hydroxymethyl (CH₂OH) radicals and cations derived from observations of B ²A'(3p)←X ²A" electronic spectra and from ab initio calculations, J. Phys. Chem., 1996, 100, 19874. [all data]

Berkowitz, Ellison, et al., 1994
Berkowitz, J.; Ellison, G.B.; Gutman, D., Three methods to measure RH bond energies, J. Phys. Chem., 1994, 98, 2744. [all data]

Tao, Klemm, et al., 1992
Tao, W.; Klemm, R.B.; Nesbitt, F.L.; Stief, J.L., A discharge flow-photoionization mass spectrometric study of hydroxymethyl radicals (H₂COH and H₂COD): Photoionization spectrum and ionization energy, J. Phys. Chem., 1992, 96, 104. [all data]

Dyke, Ellis, et al., 1984
Dyke, J.M.; Ellis, A.R.; Jonathan, N.; Keddar, N.; Morris, A., Observation of the CH₂OH radical in the gas Ppase by vacuum ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1984, 111, 207. [all data]

Griller and Lossing, 1981
Griller, D.; Lossing, F.P., On the thermochemistry of α-aminoalkyl radicals, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1981, 103, 1586. [all data]

Fisher and Henderson, 1967
Fisher, I.P.; Henderson, E., Mass spectrometry of free radicals, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 1967, 63, 1342. [all data]

Dulcey and Hudgens, 1986
Dulcey, C.S.; Hudgens, J.W., Multiphoton ionization spectroscopy and vibrational analysis of a 3p Rydberg state of the hydroxymethyl radical, J. Chem. Phys., 1986, 84, 10, 5262, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.449935 . [all data]

Bomse, Dougal, et al., 1986
Bomse, D.S.; Dougal, S.; Woodin, R.L., Multiphoton ionization studies of IR multiphoton dissociation: direct carbon-hydrogen bond cleavage in methanol, J. Phys. Chem., 1986, 90, 12, 2640, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100403a016 . [all data]

Pagsberg, Munk, et al., 1988
Pagsberg, P.; Munk, J.; Sillesen, A.; Anastasi, C., UV spectrum and kinetics of hydroxymethyl radicals, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1988, 146, 5, 375, https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(88)87462-1 . [all data]

Aristov, Conroy, et al., 2000
Aristov, V.; Conroy, D.; Reisler, H., Symmetry and lifetime of the hydroxymethyl radical in the 3p Rydberg state, Chem. Phys. Lett., 2000, 318, 4-5, 393, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0009-2614(00)00042-7 . [all data]

Jacox and Milligan, 1973
Jacox, M.E.; Milligan, D.E., Matrix isolation study of the vacuum-ultraviolet photolysis of methanol, J. Mol. Spectrosc., 1973, 47, 1, 148, https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2852(73)90084-2 . [all data]

Jacox, 1981
Jacox, M.E., The reaction of excited argon atoms and of F atoms with Methanol. Vibrational spectrum of CH2OH isolated in solid argon, Chem. Phys., 1981, 59, 1-2, 213, https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-0104(81)80101-2 . [all data]

Feng, Huang, et al., 2002
Feng, L.; Huang, X.; Reisler, H., Photodissociative spectroscopy of the hydroxymethyl radical (CH[sub 2]OH) in the 3s and 3p[sub x] states, J. Chem. Phys., 2002, 117, 10, 4820, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1498469 . [all data]

Feng, Wei, et al., 2004
Feng, L.; Wei, J.; Reisler, H., Rotationally Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of the Hydroxymethyl Radical (CH, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2004, 108, 39, 7903, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp040101+ . [all data]

Jacox, 1994
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1994, 464. [all data]

Jacox, 1998
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules: supplement A, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 2, 115-393, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556017 . [all data]

Jacox, 2003
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules: supplement B, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 2003, 32, 1, 1-441, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1497629 . [all data]

Pagsberg, Munk, et al., 1989
Pagsberg, P.; Munk, J.; Anastasi, C.; Simpson, V., UV spectrum of CD2OD and its reactions with O2, NO and NO2, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1989, 157, 3, 271, https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(89)87246-X . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions

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