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Competing Channels in Infrared Multiple Photon Decomposition
Author(s) -
Moylan Christopher R.,
Brauman John I.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
international journal of chemical kinetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1097-4601
pISSN - 0538-8066
DOI - 10.1002/kin.550180310
Subject(s) - infrared multiphoton dissociation , chemistry , infrared , photon , decomposition , absorption (acoustics) , photochemistry , chemical physics , dissociation (chemistry) , optics , physics , organic chemistry
Infrared multiple photon decompositions (IRMPD) with more than one reactive pathway can provide significantly more kinetic information than can single‐channel photolyses. The rates of the competing unimolecular reactions and the rate of photon absorption are interrelated, so that knowledge of one yields information about the others. The goals and pitfalls of IRMPD experiments on several well‐studied classes of reactants are reviewed.