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Direct versus Indirect Photodissociation of Isoxazole from Product Branching: A Chirped-Pulse Fourier Transform mm-Wave Spectroscopy/Pulsed Uniform Flow Investigation.

The UV photodissociation of isoxazole (c-C3 H3 NO) is studied in this work by chirped-pulse Fourier transform mm-wave spectroscopy in a pulsed uniform Laval flow. This approach offers a number of advantages over traditional spectroscopic detection methods due to its broadband, sub-MHz resolution, and fast-acquisition capabilities. In coupling this technique with a quasi-uniform Laval flow, we are able to obtain product branching fractions in the 193 nm photodissociation of isoxazole. Five dissociation channels are explored through direct detection of seven different photoproducts. These species and their respective branching fractions (%) include the following: HCN (53.8 ± 1.7), CH3 CN (23.4 ± 6.8), HCO (9.5 ± 2.3), CH2 CN (7.8 ± 2.9), CH2 CO (3.8 ± 0.9), HCCCN (0.9 ± 0.2), and HNC (0.8 ± 0.2). Guided by previous electronic structure and dynamics simulations, we are able to elucidate the dissociation dynamics that govern the final product branching fractions observed in this work, which differ significantly from previous reports on the thermal decomposition of isoxazole. Interestingly, both direct and indirect dynamics contribute to its dissociation, and clear signatures of both are manifested in the relative branching ratios obtained. Consistent with previous studies on the unimolecular dissociation of isoxazole, our findings also suggest the importance of the open-shell singlet diradicaloid species vinylnitrene in the dissociation dynamics, regardless of the initially populated excited state. This work, taken together with previous investigations, provides a global picture of the complex dissociation pathways involved in the photodissociation of isoxazole.

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