DETERMINATION OF THE BARRIER HEIGHT TO CH3CO DISSOCIATION Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The photodissociation of acetyl chloride at 248 nm has been investigated by the technique of photofragment translational spectroscopy. A comparison of the transitional energy distributions required to fit the chlorine atom and the acetyl radical indicates that a significant fraction ( 35%) of the CH3CO fragments undergo secondary decomposition to CH3 and CO. From analysis of the center-of-mass translational energy distributions a value of 17 1 kcal/mol for the barrier height to acetyl radical dissociation has been determined. 1994.

published proceedings

  • CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

  • NORTH, S., BLANK, D. A., & LEE, Y. T.

citation count

  • 72

complete list of authors

  • NORTH, S||BLANK, DA||LEE, YT

publication date

  • January 1994