Photodissociation of formaldehyde in a molecular beam

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Abstract
Formaldehyde photopredissociation was studied under collisionless conditions by the technique of crossed laser and molecular beams. Detection of the molecular product CO after excitation of H2CO near the S1 origin gives strong support to the sequential coupling model for fast nonradiative decay of S1 states through broadened S0 levels to the continuum. For H2CO excitation at 283.9 nm, formation of the radical product HCO dominates dissociation to molecular products by at least one order of magnitude.

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