Primary and secondary dissociation pathways in the ultraviolet photolysis of Cl2O

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The photodissociation of dichlorine monoxide (Cl2O) at 308, 248, and 193 nm was studied by photofragment translational energy spectroscopy.The primary channel upon excitation at 308 and 248 nm was Cl-O bond fission with production of ClO + Cl.A fraction of the ClO photoproducts also underwent spontaneous secondary dissociation at 248 nm.The center-of-mass translational energy distribution for the ClO + Cl channel at 248 nm appeared to be bimodal with a high energy component that was similar in shape to the 308 nm distribution and a second, low energy component with a maximum close to the threshold for the 2Cl + O(³P) channel.Observation of a bimodal distribution suggests that two pathways with different dissociation dynamics lead to ClO + Cl products.The high product internal energy of the second component raises the possibility that ClO is formed in a previously unobserved spin-excited state a ⁴Σ^-.Following excitation at 193 nm, a concerted dissociation pathway leading to Cl2 + O was observed in addition to primary Cl-O bond breakage.In both processes, most of the diatomic photofragments were formed with sufficient internal energy that they spontaneously dissociated.The time-of-flight distributions of the Cl2 + O products suggest that these fragments are formed in two different channels Cl2(³Π) + O(³P) and Cl2(X ¹Σ) + O(¹D).

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Primary and secondary dissociation pathways in the ultraviolet photolysis of Cl2O
Christine M. Nelson, Teresa A. Moore, Mitchio Okumura, and Timothy K. Minton
Citation: The Journal of Chemical Physics 100, 8055 (1994); doi: 10.1063/1.466799
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