PMID- 30137071 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20190703 IS - 1463-9084 (Electronic) IS - 1463-9076 (Linking) VI - 21 IP - 26 DP - 2019 Jul 3 TI - Photodissociation of CH(2)BrI using cavity ring-down spectroscopy: in search of a BrI elimination channel. PG - 13943-13949 LID - 10.1039/c8cp04130j [doi] AB - Photodissociation of CH2BrI was investigated in search of unimolecular elimination of BrI via a primary channel using cavity ring-down absorption spectroscopy (CRDS) at 248 nm. The BrI spectra were acquired involving the first three ground vibrational levels corresponding to A3Pi1 <-- X1Sigma+ transition. With the aid of spectral simulation, the BrI rotational lines were assigned. The nascent vibrational populations for v'' = 0, 1, and 2 levels are obtained with a population ratio of 1 : (0.58 +/- 0.10) : (0.34 +/- 0.05), corresponding to a Boltzmann-like vibrational temperature of 713 +/- 49 K. The quantum yield of the ground state BrI elimination reaction is determined to be 0.044 +/- 0.014. The CCSD(T)//B3LYP/MIDI! method was employed to explore the potential energy surface for the unimolecular elimination of BrI from CH2BrI. FAU - Muthiah, Balaganesh AU - Muthiah B AD - Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Univeristy, Taipei 106, Taiwan. kclin@ntu.edu.tw. FAU - Paredes-Roibas, Denis AU - Paredes-Roibas D FAU - Kasai, Toshio AU - Kasai T FAU - Lin, King-Chuen AU - Lin KC LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - England TA - Phys Chem Chem Phys JT - Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP JID - 100888160 EDAT- 2018/08/24 06:00 MHDA- 2018/08/24 06:01 CRDT- 2018/08/24 06:00 PHST- 2018/08/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/08/24 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/08/24 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1039/c8cp04130j [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2019 Jul 3;21(26):13943-13949. doi: 10.1039/c8cp04130j.