Real-time tracking of the entangled pathways in the multichannel photodissociation of acetaldehyde.
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SUBMITTER: Yang CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8159351 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
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Real-time tracking of the entangled pathways in the multichannel photodissociation of acetaldehyde.
Yang Chung-Hsin CH Bhattacharyya Surjendu S Liu Lihong L Fang Wei-Hai WH Liu Kopin K
Chemical science 20200226 25
The roaming mechanism, an unconventional reaction path, was discovered more than a decade ago in the studies of formaldehyde photodissociation, H<sub>2</sub>CO → H<sub>2</sub> + CO. Since then, observations of roaming have been claimed in numerous photochemical processes. A closer examination of the presented data, however, revealed that evidence for roaming is not always unequivocal, and some of the conclusions could be misleading. We report here an in-depth, joint experimental and theoretical ...[more]
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