Ion-pair photodissociations of benzyl chloride through inner-valence electron excitations

Tian SX; Xu YF; Wang YF; Feng QA; Chen LL; Sun JD; Liu FY; Shan XB; Sheng LS

Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.496, No.4-6, 254-256, 2010

DOI10.1016/j.cplett.2010.07.075 Export Citation

Ion-pair photodissociations of benzyl chloride through inner-valence electron excitations

Tian SX, Xu YF, Wang YF, Feng QA, Chen LL, Sun JD, Liu FY, Shan XB, Sheng LS

The ion-pair anion efficiency spectrum of Cl- produced in photoexcitations of benzyl chloride is recorded and tentatively assigned as the transitions from the inner-valence molecular orbitals to Rydberg orbitals. Two series transitions 16a', 6a '' -> np (n = 6, 7, 8, 9, ...) are proposed to couple strongly with the ion-pair dissociations in the photon energy range of ca. 14.5-16.0 eV. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.