Abstract
The unimolecular dissociation dynamics of vinyl chloride on the ground electronic potential energy surface have been investigated. The vibrationally excited vinyl chloride in its ground electronic state is prepared using the isomerization process of α-chloroethylidene radical to vinyl chloride via the hydrogen atom migration, where the chloroethylidene radical is produced by the ultraviolet photolysis of 3-methyl-3-chlorodiazirine. The vinyl chloride molecule formed in this excitation scheme is highly vibrationally excited in its ground electronic state due to the bond formation between two carbon atoms, and undergoes unimolecular reactions of HCl elimination or C−Cl bond fission. The rotational and vibrational state distributions of the HCl fragments and the spin−orbit state branching ratio of the Cl atoms have been measured with a resonantly enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI)/time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The overall state distributions of the HCl and Cl fragments are much colder than those in ...
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