A Velocity Map Ion-imaging Study on Ketene Photodissociation at 218 nm

Photodissociation dynamics of ketene at 218 nm has been investigated using the velocity map ion-imaging method. Both angular and translational energy distributions for the CO products at different rotational and vibrational states have been obtained. The 2＋1 REMPI spectrum of CO products is also obtained. The results are as bellow： （i） CO products in the first two vibrational states （ v＂=0 and v＂=1 ） exhibit significant rotational excitation. Furthermore the rotational excitation of CO at the v＂=0 level is noticeably higher than that at the v＂=1 level. （ii） It was found that the major photodissociation pathway of ketene at 218 nm is the CH2（ǎ^1A1）＋CO（X^1∑^＋） channel, while the CH2（b^1B1）＋CO（X^1∑^＋） channel and the CH2（X^3B1）＋CO（X^1E^＋） channel are also likely present, （iii） The anisotropy parameters β of CO different rovibronic states all appear to be larger than zero. No significant difference is observed at the two vibrational states,