<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chao, M.-H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsai, P.-Y.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lin, K.-C.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Molecular elimination of methyl formate in photolysis at 234 nm: Roaming vs. transition state-type mechanism</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84859755272&amp;doi=10.1039%2fc0cp02710c&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=f9b74194dca995352a60ad2537c49019</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">15</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">13</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7154-7161</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Ion imaging coupled with (2 + 1) resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) technique is employed to probe CO(v″ = 0) fragments at different rotational levels following photodissociation of methyl formate (HCOOCH 3) at 234 nm. When the rotational level, J″CO, is larger than 24, only a broad translational energy distribution extending beyond 70 kcal mol-1 with an average energy of about 23 kcal mol -1 appears. The dissociation process is initiated on the energetic ground state HCOOCH3 that surpasses a tight transition state along the reaction coordinate prior to breaking into CO + CH3OH. This molecular dissociation pathway accounts for the CO fragment with larger rotational energy and large translational energy. As J″CO decreases, a bimodal distribution arises with one broad component and the other sharp component carrying the average energy of only 1-2 kcal mol-1. The branching ratio of the sharp component increases with a decrease of J″CO; (7.3 ± 0.6)% is reached as the image is probed at J″CO = 10. The production of a sharp component is ascribed to a roaming mechanism that has the following features: a small total translational energy, a low rotational energy partitioning in CO, but a large internal energy in the CH3OH co-product. The internal energy deposition in the fragments shows distinct difference from those via the conventional transition state. © the Owner Societies 2011.&lt;/p&gt;
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