Energy transfer and primary product ion excitation in dissociative charge-transfer and penning ionization reactions

The near-adiabatic theory has been applied to experimental data obtained for some dissociative charge-transfer reactions of propane. The results support the proposition that the electronic energy levels of the C₃H₈⁺ primary product ion from dissociative charge-transfer correspond to published values of the appearance potentials of fragment ions from propane. The internal energy distribution of the C₃H₈⁺ primary product ion is obtained by plotting the relative abundances of the fragment ions against their appearance potentials. © 1974.