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Dissociative Attachment In Selected Monochloroalkanes, D. M. Pearl, Paul Burrow

Paul Burrow Publications

The total cross sections for the dissociative attachment (DA) process are reported for eight normal chloroalkanes C_nH_2n+1Cl for n=2–9, two secondary compounds 2-chloropropane and 2-chlorobutane, one tertiary compound t-butyl chloride, and three cyclic chloroalkanes c-C_nH_2n-1Cl for n=4–6, for electron energies below 4 eV. Using vertical attachment energies (VAEs) determined by electron transmission spectroscopy elsewhere and in this work, we show that the resonance widths vary linearly with VAE in this series of compounds and that the peak DA cross sections decline exponentially with increasing VAE. …