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Influence of initial state bend—stretch couplings on product rotational distributions in photodissociation of bent triatomic molecules

✍ Scribed by Horacio Grinberg; Karl F. Freed; Carl J. Williams


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
540 KB
Volume
182
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-2614

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✦ Synopsis


Even when a simple valence force field is used to represent the bound state normal modes, the kinetic energy operator couples bending and stretching motions in bent triatomic molecules. These bend-stretch couplings have been ignored in previous theoretical descriptions of photodissociation and are shown here to significantly alter predicted rotational energy distributions. Examples consider model HCN and NOCl photodissociations from bent initial states.