Abstract

By investigating the infrared dissociation yield of perfluoropropene under a convenient range of experimental conditions on pressure, laser fluence and number of irradiation shots, we have seen that i) besides the already known final products, C₂F₄ and C₂F₆, the dissociation of this molecule also produces polytetrafluoroethylene, and ii) contrary to what one should expect from its rather large molecular size, perfluoropropene opposes a strong bottleneck effect against absorption of resonant infrared radiation, at least for irradiation fluences smaller than ≈ 1.8 Jcm^-2