The I3C enrichment in the photolysis of three ketones, dibenzyl ketone (DBK), (S)-(+)-a-methyldeoxybenzoin (MDB), and d,l-2,4-diphenylpentan-3-one (DPP), along with the photostereoisomerization of the latter two From the simple paradigm of eq 1, the value P,, the probability of combination of a primary geminate pair, is a potentially useful and intuitive mechanistic parametcfl~~ which clearly represents the competition between the knit process and all other competing processes.When the primary geminate pair is created in a singlet state (IRP), the value of Pr is often close to unity and is relatively lacking in mechanistic information. On the other hand, when the primary geminate pair is produced in a triplet state ORP), the intersystem crossing step, )RP -'RP, requires a magnetic interaction and may ku" rate determining and, before the