title: Photofragment translational spectroscopy of propargyl radicals at 248 nm.
abstract: The photodissociation of propargyl radical, C(3)H(3), and its perdeuterated isotopolog was investigated using photofragment translational spectroscopy. Propargyl radicals were produced by 193 nm photolysis of allene entrained in a molecular beam expansion and then photodissociated at 248 nm. Photofragment time-of-flight spectra were measured at a series of laboratory angles using electron impact ionization coupled to a mass spectrometer. Data for ion masses corresponding to C(3)H(2)(+), C(3)H(+), C(3)(+), and the analogous deuterated species show that both H and H(2) loss occur. The translational energy distributions for these processes have average values E(T)=5.7 and 15.3 kcal/mol, respectively, and are consistent with dissociation on the ground state following internal conversion, with no exit barrier for H loss but a tight transition state for H(2) loss. Our translational energy distribution for H atom loss is similar to that in a previous work on propargyl in which the H atom, rather than the heavy fragment, was detected. The branching ratio for H loss/H(2) loss was determined to be 97.62.4+/-1.2, in good agreement with previous calculations.
authors: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors: Scott J
authors: SJ
authors: Goncher
authors: David T
authors: DT
authors: Moore
authors: Niels E
authors: NE
authors: Sveum
authors: Daniel M
authors: DM
authors: Neumark