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Harrison, Aaron W., Kharazmi, Alireza, Shaw, Miranda F., Quinn, Mitchell S., Lee, K. L. Kelvin, Nauta, Klaas, Rowell, Keiran N., Jordan, Meredith J. T., Kable, Scott H. |
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP); 7/14/2019, Vol. 21 Issue 26, p14284-14295, 12p |
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The first experimental observation of the primary photochemical channel of acetaldehyde leading to the formation of ketene (CH2CO) and hydrogen (H2) molecular products is reported. Acetaldehyde (CH3CHO) was photolysed in a molecular beam at 305.6 nm and the resulting H2 product characterized using velocity-map ion (VMI) imaging. Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI), via two-photon excitation to the double-well EF 1Σ+g state, was used to state-selectively ionize the H2 and determine angular momentum distributions for H2 (ν = 0) and H2 (ν = 1). Velocity-map ion images were obtained for H2 (ν = 0 and 1, J = 5), allowing the total translational energy release of the photodissociation process to be determined. Following photolysis of CH3CHO in a gas cell, the CH2CO co-fragment was identified, using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, by its characteristic infrared absorption at 2150 cm−1. The measured quantum yield of the CH2CO + H2 product channel at 305.0 nm is Φ = 0.0075 ± 0.0025 for both 15 Torr of neat CH3CHO and a mixture with 745 Torr of N2. Although small, this result has implications for the atmospheric photochemistry of carbonyls and this reaction represents a new tropospheric source of H2. Quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) simulations on a zero-point energy corrected reaction-path potential are also performed. The experimental REMPI and VMI image distributions are not consistent with the QCT simulations, indicating a non reaction-path mechanism should be considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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