Photodissociation of benzene under collision-free conditions: An ab initio/Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus study

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 120, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 7008-7017

  Kislov, V V ^a,d   Nguyen, T L ^a,e   Mebel, A M ^a,b   Lin, S H ^a   Smith, S C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF SOLUTION CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION CHANNELS; NONADIABATIC PROCESS; PHOTOEXCITATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE (PES);

DECOMPOSITION; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR BEAMS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; REACTION KINETICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BENZENE;

EID: 2342653622     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1676275     Document Type: Article

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