Issue 13, 2009
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Multiphoton dissociation dynamics of CH3Br

Fengyan Wang,ab   M. Laura Lipciuc,b   Xueming Yanga  and  Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos*bc  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, PRChina

b Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Voutes, Heraklion, Greece
E-mail: theo@iesl.forth.gr

c Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Voutes, Heraklion, Greece

Abstract

The state-resolved photodissociation dynamics of CH3Br+ cations are studied using a combination of slice imaging and velocity mapping. Parent ions are prepared by (2 + 1) two-photon resonant three-photon ionization of CH3Br through the 5s Rydberg state in the energy region 29 069.8–29 976.0 cm−1. Analysis of the photoelectron spectra reveals that CH3Br+ ions are produced in the spin–orbit ground electronic state with a wide distribution of vibrational excitation. The photodissociation of CH3Br+ produces CH3+(X) + Br(2P1/2)/Br(2P3/2) whose product state distribution shows substantial excitation in the umbrella mode of the CH3+ photofragment, especially when concurrently producing the Br(2P1/2) channel. The shapes of the photofragment angular distributions clearly show the different dissociation mechanisms in the Br(2P1/2) and Br(2P3/2) channels. The dissociation dynamics of the 5s Rydberg state of CH3Br are also presented and analyzed.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B815824J
Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 Sep 2008
Accepted
18 Dec 2008
First published
09 Feb 2009

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009,11, 2234-2240

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Multiphoton dissociation dynamics of CH3Br

F. Wang, M. L. Lipciuc, X. Yang and T. N. Kitsopoulos, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 11, 2234 DOI: 10.1039/B815824J

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