Photodissociation dynamics of benzyl alcohol at 193 nm.

Photodissociation dynamics of benzyl alcohol, C(6)H(5)CH(2)OH and C(6)H(5)CD(2)OH, in a molecular beam was investigated at 193 nm using multimass ion imaging techniques. Four dissociation channels were observed, including OH elimination and H(2)O elimination from the ground electronic state, H atom elimination (from OH functional group), and CH(2)OH elimination from the triplet state. The dissociation rate on the ground state was found to be 7.7 × 10(6) s(-1). Comparison to the potential energy surfaces from ab initio calculations, dissociation rate, and branching ratio from Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus calculations were made.

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