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The Photochemistry of Silicon Compounds. 111. The Vacuum-Ultraviolet Photolysis of Methylsilane K. Obi, A. Clement, H. E. Gunning, and 0. P. Strausz Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Received September 26, 1968 Abstract: The gas-phase photolysis of methylsilane at the xenon and krypton resonance lines proceeds via the following primary steps with values of $(Xe) and $(Kr) given,respectively, in parentheses: CH3SiH3 hv + (step 1) CH3SiH* HZ(0.32, 0.16); (step 2 ) CH3SiH t 2H (0.05, 0.09); (step 3) CH2SiH2* H Z(0.23,
