The mechanism of the infrared laser induced multiphoton decomposition of ethyl alcohol

JW Goodale, DK Evans, M Ivanco…

Index: Goodale, J. W.; Evans, D. K.; Ivanco, M.; McAlpine, Robert D. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1990 , vol. 68, # 8 p. 1437 - 1439

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Abstract

The infrared laser induced multiphoton decomposition of ethyl alcohol has been studied in experiments with iodine as a radical scavenger and the deuterium substituted form CH3CD2OH of the alcohol. These experiments show that the principal product, C2H4, arises from a concerted molecular elimination, as do most of the CH4 and CH3CHO. The C2H6 product results from recombination of the nascent methyl radicals formed in the minor ...