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Chang Y, Ashfold MNR, Yuan K, Yang X. Exploring the vacuum ultraviolet photochemistry of astrochemically important triatomic molecules. Natl Sci Rev 2023; 10:nwad158. [PMID: 37771464 PMCID: PMC10533343 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwad158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023] Open
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The recently constructed vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) free electron laser (FEL) at the Dalian Coherent Light Source (DCLS) is yielding a wealth of new and exquisitely detailed information about the photofragmentation dynamics of many small gas-phase molecules. This Review focuses particular attention on five triatomic molecules-H2O, H2S, CO2, OCS and CS2. Each shows excitation wavelength-dependent dissociation dynamics, yielding photofragments that populate a range of electronic and (in the case of diatomic fragments) vibrational and rotational quantum states, which can be characterized by different translational spectroscopy methods. The photodissociation of an isolated molecule from a well-defined initial quantum state provides a lens through which one can investigate how and why chemical reactions occur, and provides numerous opportunities for fruitful, synergistic collaborations with high-level ab initio quantum chemists. The chosen molecules, their photofragments and the subsequent chemical reaction networks to which they can contribute are all crucial in planetary atmospheres and in interstellar and circumstellar environments. The aims of this Review are 3-fold: to highlight new photochemical insights enabled by the VUV-FEL at the DCLS, notably the recently recognized central atom elimination process that is shown to contribute in all of these triatomic molecules; to highlight some of the potential implications of this rich photochemistry to our understanding of interstellar chemistry and molecular evolution within the universe; and to highlight other and future research directions in areas related to chemical reaction dynamics and astrochemistry that will be enabled by increased access to VUV-FEL sources.
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- Yao Chang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Dalian Coherent Light Source, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Dalian Coherent Light Source, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Dalian Coherent Light Source, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Liu Q, Li Z, Liu P, Yang X, Yu S. Resonance-state selective photodissociation dynamics of OCS + hv → CS(X1Σ+) + O(3Pj=2,1,0) via the 21Σ+ state. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:2888161. [PMID: 37139996 DOI: 10.1063/5.0150850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 04/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
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Understanding vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation dynamics of Carbonyl sulfide (OCS) is of considerable importance in the study of atmospheric chemistry. Yet, photodissociation dynamics of the CS(X1Σ+) + O(3Pj=2,1,0) channels following excitation to the 21Σ+(ν1',1,0) state has not been clearly understood so far. Here, we investigate the O(3Pj=2,1,0) elimination dissociation processes in the resonance-state selective photodissociation of OCS between 147.24 and 156.48 nm by using the time-sliced velocity-mapped ion imaging technique. The total kinetic energy release spectra are found to exhibit highly structured profiles, indicative of the formation of a broad range of vibrational states of CS(1Σ+). The fitted CS(1Σ+) vibrational state distributions differ for the three 3Pj spin-orbit states, but a general trend of the inverted characteristics is observed. Additionally, the wavelength-dependent behaviors are also observed in the vibrational populations for CS(1Σ+, v). The CS(X1Σ+, v = 0) has a significantly strong population at several shorter wavelengths, and the most populated CS(X1Σ+, v) is gradually transferred to a higher vibrational state with the decrease in the photolysis wavelength. The measured overall β-values for the three 3Pj spin-orbit channels slightly increase and then abruptly decrease as the photolysis wavelength increases, while the vibrational dependences of β-values show an irregularly decreasing trend with increasing CS(1Σ+) vibrational excitation at all studied photolysis wavelengths. The comparison of the experimental observations for this titled channel and the S(3Pj) channel reveals that two different intersystem crossing mechanisms may be involved in the formation of the CS(X1Σ+) + O(3Pj=2,1,0) photoproducts via the 21Σ+ state.
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- Qian Liu
- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou 311231, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou 311231, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou 311231, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou 311231, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Dalian Coherent Light Source, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, People's Republic of China
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, People's Republic of China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou 311231, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China
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Li Z, Liao H, Yang W, Yang X, Yu S. Vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of OCS via the 2 1Σ + state: the S( 1D 2) elimination channel. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:17870-17878. [PMID: 35851633 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02044k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The photodissociation of OCS is necessary to model the primary photochemical processes of OCS in the global cycling of sulfur and interstellar photochemistry. Here, by combining the time-sliced velocity-map ion imaging technique with the single vacuum ultraviolet photon ionization method, we have studied the CO(1Σ+, v) + S(1D2) photoproduct channel from the OCS photodissociation via the eight different vibrational resonances ( = 1-8) in the 21Σ+(, 1, 0) ← X1Σ+(0, 0, 0) band. From the measured S(1D2) images, the wavelength-dependent CO(1Σ+, v) vibrational state populations have been obtained in the wavelength range of 142.98-154.37 nm. The majority of the CO(1Σ+, v) photoproducts are shown to abruptly populate from low vibrational states to high vibrational states as the photolysis wavelength decreases from 152.38 to 148.92 nm. The anisotropy parameters (β) for the CO(1Σ+, v) + S(1D2) channel have also been determined from the images of the S(1D2) photoproducts. It is found that the vibrational state-specific β-values present a similar decreasing trend with increasing CO vibrational excitation for all the eight vibrational resonances of OCS*(21Σ+). These observations indicate that there is a possibility that more than one non-adiabatic dissociation pathways with different dissociation lifetimes are involved in the formation of CO(1Σ+) + S(1D2) photoproducts from the initial vibronic levels of the 21Σ+ state to the final dissociative state.
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- Zheng Li
- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou, 311231, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou, 311231, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou, 311231, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou, 311231, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China. .,State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, 116023, Liaoning Province, P. R. China.,Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Road, Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou, 311231, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.
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Vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation dynamics of OCS via the F Rydberg state: The S( 3P J=2,1,0) product channels. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2022. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2112271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Xu F, Tan YX, Yuan DF, Chen WT, Yu SR, Xie T, Wang T, Yang XM, Wang XA. Wavelength dependent photodissociation of OCS via F 31Π Rydberg state: CO(X1Σ+)+S(1D2) product channel. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2020. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2008147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Fei Xu
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, Hangzhou 311231, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- State key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- College of Science, Sothern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- State key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- College of Science, Sothern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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Wang SW, Yuan DF, Chen WT, Tang L, Yu SR, Yang XM, Wang XA. Photodissociation dynamics of OCS near 128 nm: S(3PJ=2,1,0), S(1D2) and S(1S0) channels. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2020. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp1911179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- Si-wen Wang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Materials Science at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Materials Science at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Materials Science at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Materials Science at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, Hangzhou 311231, China
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- State key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- School of Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Materials Science at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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Chen W, Zhang L, Yuan D, Chang Y, Yu S, Wang S, Wang T, Jiang B, Yuan K, Yang X, Wang X. Observation of the Carbon Elimination Channel in Vacuum Ultraviolet Photodissociation of OCS. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:4783-4787. [PMID: 31378065 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The textbook mechanism for OCS photodissociation mainly involves the CO + S or CS + O product channel via a single bond fission. However, a third dissociation channel concerning the cleavage of both C-S and C-O bonds yielding SO + C products, though thermodynamically allowed, has never been verified experimentally to date. By using a tunable vacuum ultraviolet laser light and time-sliced velocity map ion imaging technique, we have clearly observed the SO(X3Σ-) + C(3PJ=0) products as the vacuum ultraviolet laser photon energy gradually exceeds its thermodynamic threshold. The corresponding SO(X3Σ-) coproducts are highly vibrationally excited and show varying angular distributions from isotropic to anisotropic as the excitation photon energy increases. Theoretical analysis suggests that a fast nonadiabatic pathway plays a dominant role in the formation of the anisotropic SO products. That isotropic products arise as the excitation photon energies approach the thermodynamic threshold can be reasonably explained by the "roaming mechanism".
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- Wentao Chen
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, Hangzhou 311231, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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Sun ZF, Bishwakarma CK, Song L, van der Avoird A, van Hemert MC, Suits AG, McBane GC, Parker DH. Imaging inelastic scattering of CO with argon: polarization dependent differential cross sections. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:9200-9211. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00876d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Rotationally inelastic scattering of carbon monoxide (CO) with argon at a collision energy of 700 cm−1 has been investigated by measuring polarization dependent differential scattering cross sections (PDDCSs) for rotationally excited CO molecules using a crossed molecular beam apparatus coupled with velocity-map ion imaging.
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- Zhong-Fa Sun
- Department of Molecular and Laser Physics
- Institute for Molecules and Materials
- Radboud University
- 6525 AJ Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular and Laser Physics
- Institute for Molecules and Materials
- Radboud University
- 6525 AJ Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
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- Theoretical Chemistry
- Institute for Molecules and Materials
- Radboud University
- 6525 AJ Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
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- Theoretical Chemistry
- Institute for Molecules and Materials
- Radboud University
- 6525 AJ Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- Gorlaeus Laboratories
- Leiden University
- 2333 CC Leiden
- The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Missouri
- Columbia MO 65211
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Grand Valley State University
- Allendale
- USA
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- Department of Molecular and Laser Physics
- Institute for Molecules and Materials
- Radboud University
- 6525 AJ Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
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Brouard M, Gordon SDS, Nichols B, Squires E, Walpole V, Aoiz FJ, Stolte S. Angular distributions for the inelastic scattering of NO(X 2Π) with O 2(X 3Σ g-). J Chem Phys 2017; 146:204304. [PMID: 28571381 DOI: 10.1063/1.4983706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The inelastic scattering of NO(X2Π) by O2(X3Σg-) was studied at a mean collision energy of 550 cm-1 using velocity-map ion imaging. The initial quantum state of the NO(X2Π, v = 0, j = 0.5, Ω=0.5, 𝜖 = -1, f) molecule was selected using a hexapole electric field, and specific Λ-doublet levels of scattered NO were probed using (1+1') resonantly enhanced multiphoton ionization. A modified "onion-peeling" algorithm was employed to extract angular scattering information from the series of "pancaked," nested Newton spheres arising as a consequence of the rotational excitation of the molecular oxygen collision partner. The extracted differential cross sections for NO(X) f→f and f→e Λ-doublet resolved, spin-orbit conserving transitions, partially resolved in the oxygen co-product rotational quantum state, are reported, along with O2 fragment pair-correlated rotational state population. The inelastic scattering of NO with O2 is shown to share many similarities with the scattering of NO(X) with the rare gases. However, subtle differences in the angular distributions between the two collision partners are observed.
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- M Brouard
- The Department of Chemistry, The Chemical Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- The Department of Chemistry, The Chemical Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- The Department of Chemistry, The Chemical Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- The Department of Chemistry, The Chemical Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- The Department of Chemistry, The Chemical Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- The Jilin Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Qianjin Avenue, Changchung 130012, China
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Suits AG, Bishwakarma CK, Song L, Groenenboom GC, van der Avoird A, Parker DH. Direct Extraction of Alignment Moments from Inelastic Scattering Images. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:5925-31. [PMID: 25377301 DOI: 10.1021/jp509381q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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We present a novel means of analyzing velocity-map images of angular momentum polarization in inelastic scattering. In this approach, linear combinations of angular distributions obtained by integrating select regions of images for two probe laser polarizations directly yield the alignment-free differential cross sections and the differential alignment moments. No fitting is needed in the analysis. The method relies on the fact that the angular distribution for out-of-plane scattering is encoded in the distribution along the relative velocity vector, and this may be recovered quantitatively owing to the redundancy of the in-plane and out-of-plane scattering for the horizontal polarization case.
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- Arthur G Suits
- †Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, 6525, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,‡Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States
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- †Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, 6525, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- †Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, 6525, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- †Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, 6525, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- †Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, 6525, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Chen Z, Eppink ATJB, Jiang B, Groenenboom GC, Yang X, Parker DH. Product pair correlation in CH3OH photodissociation at 157 nm: the OH + CH3channel. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:2350-5. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cp01794a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Chichinin AI, Gericke KH, Kauczok S, Maul C. Imaging chemical reactions – 3D velocity mapping. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/01442350903235045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Lee SK, Silva R, Thamanna S, Vasyutinskii OS, Suits AG. S(D21) atomic orbital polarization in the photodissociation of OCS at 193nm: Construction of the complete density matrix. J Chem Phys 2006; 125:144318. [PMID: 17042601 DOI: 10.1063/1.2357948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The absolute velocity-dependent alignment and orientation for S(1D2) atoms from the photodissociation of OCS at 193 nm were measured using the dc slice imaging method. Three main peaks ascribed to specific groups of high rotational levels of CO in the vibrational ground state were found, with rotationally resolved rings in a fourth slow region ascribed to weak signals associated with excited vibrational states of CO. The observed speed-dependent beta and polarization parameters support the interpretation that there are two main dissociation processes: a simultaneous two-surface (A' and A") excitation and the initial single-surface (A') excitation followed by the nonadiabatic crossing to ground state. At 193 nm photodissociation, the nonadiabatic dissociation process is strongly enhanced relative to longer wavelengths. The angle- and speed-dependent S(1D2) density matrix can be constructed including the higher order (K = 3,4) contributions for the circularly polarized dissociation light. This was explicitly done for selected energies and angles. It was found in one case that the density matrix is sensitively affected by the rank 4 terms, suggesting that the higher order contributions should not be overlooked for an accurate picture of the dissociation dynamics in this system.
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- Suk Kyoung Lee
- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State Univeristy, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
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Ashfold MNR, Nahler NH, Orr-Ewing AJ, Vieuxmaire OPJ, Toomes RL, Kitsopoulos TN, Garcia IA, Chestakov DA, Wu SM, Parker DH. Imaging the dynamics of gas phase reactions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2006; 8:26-53. [PMID: 16482242 DOI: 10.1039/b509304j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 240] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ion imaging methods are making ever greater impact on studies of gas phase molecular reaction dynamics. This article traces the evolution of the technique, highlights some of the more important breakthroughs with regards to improving image resolution and in image processing and analysis methods, and then proceeds to illustrate some of the many applications to which the technique is now being applied--most notably in studies of molecular photodissociation and of bimolecular reaction dynamics.
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