Photodissociation of alkyl nitrites in a molecular beam. Primary and secondary reactions

CS Effenhauser, P Felder, JR Huber

Index: Effenhauser, C. S.; Felder, P.; Huber, J. Robert Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1990 , vol. 94, # 1 p. 296 - 302

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Abstract

The translational energy distributions P (&) for the 248-nm photodissociation products (NO+ RO) of isopropyl nitrite and tert-butyl nitrite have been measured with a molecular beam time- of-flight (TOF) apparatus. Previous experiments with methyl nitrite and ethyl nitrite have been repeated with higher resolution. The average photofragment translational energies of these four alkyl nitrites are in good agreement with those predicted by an impulsive model that ...