High-Temperature Pyrolysis Study of 2-Methyl-2-butanol behind Reflected Shock Wave: Shock Tube and Computational Study.

Pyrolysis of a branched alcohol, 2-methyl-2-butanol (2M2BOH), was carried out behind the reflected shock wave in the temperature range of 1011-1303 K and under pressures varying from 9.3 to 14.6 atm. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the postshock mixture was performed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and gas chromatography with a flame ionization detector, respectively. The rate coefficients for the C-C and C-O bond cleavage reaction pathways were calculated using the variational transition-state theory. The Rice-Ramsperger-Kessel-Marcus/Master equation was employed to calculate the rate coefficients for the H