Evidence for multiple dissociation components and orbital alignment in 205 nm photodissociation of N2O

✍ Scribed by Toshinori Suzuki; Hideki Katayanagi; Yuxiang Mo; Kenichi Tonokura

• Book ID: 103036258
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 398 KB
• Volume: 256
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(96)00429-0

✦ Synopsis

The recoil velocity distribution of O(ID2 ) atoms produced by 205 nm photodissociation of N20 has been measured by a two-dimensional (2D) ion imaging method. The distribution consists of at least two components, suggesting that there are overlapping electronic transitions and/or non-adiabatic transitions that lead to different dissociation pathways. The angular distribution also suggests that electronic orbitals of O(~D2) atoms are aligned in the molecular frame.