VIBRATIONAL STATE CONTROLLED BOND-CLEAVAGE IN THE PHOTODISSOCIATION OF ISOCYANIC ACID (HNCO)

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BROWN, SS
BERGHOUT, HL
CRIM, FF
机构
[1] Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
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10.1063/1.468835
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
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We report the bond selected photodissociation of isocyanic acid (HNCO). This molecule dissociates from its first excited singlet state, breaking either the N-H bond to form H + NCO (X 2Π) or the C-N bond to form NH (a 1Δ) + CO (1Σ+). The threshold for production of NH lies about 3900 cm-1 above that of NCO, and we detect both of these channels by laser induced fluorescence on either the NH or the NCO fragment. Dissociating the molecule out of a vibrationally excited state on its ground electronic surface containing four quanta of N-H stretch (4v 1) enhances the efficiency of the NCO channel over the NH channel by a factor of at least 20. We reach this conclusion by comparing the results of such a vibrationally mediated photodissociation experiment to those from a conventional single photon dissociation at the same total energy (about 1000 cm-1 above the threshold for the NH channel). Our estimate of the branching ratio in the one photon dissociation at this energy is roughly ΦNCO/ΦNH≈20, and it grows to ΦNCO/ΦNH≥400 in the vibrationally mediated photodissociation. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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