Background: The study of evolution of asymmetric dinuclear systems (DNSs) formed in heavy ion collisions is a topic of intense research. The DNS evolution leads to a variety of reaction channels such as deep inelastic, complete fusion, quasifission, fast fission, fusion-fission, and evaporation of particles. The time evolution of the DNS in the quasifission process and the role of relevant parameters are still not fully understood. Purpose: The influence of the entrance channel mass asymmetry on the time evolution of an excited and rotating DNS, populated via four reactions with different entrance channel mass asymmetry parameters which all lead to the compound nucleus 216Ra, is explored. Method: The driving potential, emission barriers for the binary decay (namely the quasifission and intrinsic fusion barriers), rate of the quasifission channel, and the lifetime of an excited DNS, as well as the fission rate and fission lifetime of the compound nucleus 216Ra formed in the 12C+204Pb, 19F+197Au, 30Si+186W, and 48Ca+168Er reactions, are calculated by the dinuclear system approach. Results: Our results show that the intrinsic fusion barrier values are equal to zero for the 12C+204Pb and 19F+197Au reactions. Therefore, the quasifission signature is extremely hindered for these reactions, while the 30Si+186W and 48Ca+168Er calculated results contain quasifission contributions. Provided the quasifission rate is nonzero, the quasifission rate increases with increasing orbital angular momentum l of the composite system for a given excitation energy E∗CN of the compound nucleus. On the other hand, the quasifission lifetime decreases moderately with increasing l. Furthermore, both quasifission and fission rates increase with increasing excitation energy E∗CN, while the quasifission and fission lifetimes decrease with increasing E∗CN for a given l. Conclusions: Although these reactions with different entrance channels populate the same compound nucleus 216Ra at similar excitat
