Laser photofragment study of ethyl chloride cation at 5145 Å

Abstract

We present the product kinetic energy distribution for the photodissociation of the ethyl chloride cation at 5145 Å. The energy partitioning is consistent with a direct dissociation mechanism in which a combination of recoil effects and FrancknCondon effects dispose 85% of the available energy into fragment internal degrees of freedom. (AIP)