Highly rotationally excited CH3 from methane photodissociation through conical intersection pathway

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 475-479

  Zhang, Yongwei ^a   Yuan, Kaijun ^a   Yu, Shengrui ^a   Yang, Xueming ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Clusters; Dynamics; Excited states

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; C-H BOND; CLUSTERS; CONICAL INTERSECTION; DISSOCIATION PATHWAYS; ENERGY DEPENDENT; ENERGY SURFACE; GROUND POTENTIAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; PHOTOLYSIS WAVELENGTH; RYDBERG; SHARP FEATURES; TIME-OF-FLIGHT TECHNIQUES;

EXCITED STATES; METHANE; PHOTOLYSIS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS;

PHOTODISSOCIATION;

EID: 77349086030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz900303e     Document Type: Article

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