Methylene singlet–triplet energy splitting by molecular beam photodissociation of ketene
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 76 (7) , 3607-3613
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.443397
Abstract
The singlet–triplet splitting in methylene has been determined from the measurements of fragment velocities from ketene photodissociation at 351 and 308 nm in a molecular beam. The splitting is found to be 8.5±0.8 kcal/mol. This agrees with many experimental results, but not with the value of 19.5 kcal/mol derived from recent photodetachment experiments on CH−2.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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