Photodissociation of molecular chlorine in xenon matrices

Article abstract of DOI:10.1063/1.461979

The photodissociation of Cl2 in crystalline Xe is examined using synchrotron radiation for all state of Cl2 from the C¹Π_1u state to the region of Xe exciton absorption.Isolation of atomic chlorine in two dominant trapping sites is observed following photodissociation throughout the spectral region studied.The production efficiency of the thermally stable trapping site was found to increase significantly with temperature and was most pronounced in the region of the onset of the Xe2Cl excitation feature.Correlation between these two processes is explained in terms of a charge-transfer-induced dissociation mechanism involving the formation of a Xe⁺ (Cl2)^- intermediate.In contrast to Ar and Kr matrices, photodissociation of Cl2 in Xe appears to occur without a pronounced cage effect.This observation is rationalized in terms of the larger lattice parameters of Xe which allows isolation of Cl2 and Cl at single substitutional and octahedral interstitial sites, respectively.From this structural information, simple models are presented for the production of Cl in the two different kinds of trapping sites.Thus production of the thermally unstable site involves the symmetric dissociation of Cl2 with both Cl atoms occupying octahedral interstitial sites separated by a single lattice constant of Xe.The thermally stable site involves the isolation of one Cl atom at the substitutional site originally occupied by the Cl2 parent molecule and the other at an octahedral interstitial site.

Full text of DOI:10.1063/1.461979

Photodissociation of molecular chlorine in xenon matrices
J. G. McCaffrey, H. Kunz, and N. Schwentner
Citation: The Journal of Chemical Physics 96, 2825 (1992); doi: 10.1063/1.461979
View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.461979
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