Abstract

The photodissociation dynamics of glyoxal have been of special interest in recent years because of the possibility that a single transition state leads to three molecular products; 2CO + H₂. Previous experiments with glyoxal directly show the presence of two dissociation channels yielding H₂CO + CO and HCOH + CO and data consistent with the existence of the 2CO + H₂ channel mentioned above. CO is a common product of all three channels. The CO energy distribution was measured in previous work by our group.

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