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Potential Energy Surfaces in Excited States of Saturated Molecules

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The vacuum UV photlysis of acyclic alkanes in the low-energy or threshold region of their spectra is characterized by two-bond cleavages. Thus, the simplest alkane, CH4, dissociates almost exclusively to methylene and molecular hydrogen in the threshold region:1

$$CH_{4}\overset{h\nu }{\rightarrow}CH_{2}+H_{2}$$
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Gordon, M.S. (1981). Potential Energy Surfaces in Excited States of Saturated Molecules. In: Truhlar, D.G. (eds) Potential Energy Surfaces and Dynamics Calculations. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1735-8_7

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