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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 145, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4962361
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- U.S. Department of Energy-Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-87ER13792, DE-FG02-97ER14782]
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The unimolecular dissociation dynamics of the dimethyl-substituted Criegee intermediate (CH3)(2)COO is examined experimentally using velocity map imaging to ascertain the translational and internal energy distributions of the OH and H2CC(CH3)O radical products. The energy profile of key features along the reaction coordinate is also evaluated theoretically. Unimolecular decay of (CH3)(2)COO is initiated by vibrational activation in the CH stretch overtone region and the resultant OH X-2 Pi(3/2) (v = 0) products are state-selectively ionized and imaged. Analysis reveals an isotropic spatial distribution, indicative of a 3 ps lower limit for the timescale of dissociation, and a broad and unstructured total kinetic energy release distribution. The energy released to products is partitioned principally as internal excitation of the H2CC(CH3)O fragments with modest translational excitation of the fragments and a small degree of OH rotational excitation. The total kinetic energy release distribution observed for (CH3)(2)COO is compared with that predicted for statistical partitioning over product quantum states, and contrasted with recent experimental and quasi-classical trajectory results for syn-CH3CHOO [N. M. Kidwell et al., Nat. Chem. 8, 509 (2016)]. Published by AIP Publishing.
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