Measurements of Vector Correlations in Bimolecular Reactions by Laser Pump-Probe Techniques

  1. Green, F. 2
  2. Hancock, G. 2
  3. Orr-Ewing, A.J. 2
  4. Brouard, M. 1
  5. Duxon, S.P. 1
  6. Enriquez, P.A. 1
  7. Sayos, R. 1
  8. Simons, J.P. 1
  1. 1 University of Nottingham
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    University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, Reino Unido

    ROR https://ror.org/01ee9ar58

  2. 2 University of Oxford
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    University of Oxford

    Oxford, Reino Unido

    ROR https://ror.org/052gg0110

Journal:
Chemical Physics Letters

ISSN: 0009-2614

Year of publication: 1991

Volume: 182

Issue: 6

Pages: 568-574

Type: Article

SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-0000023689 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Abstract

Velocity-aligned, superthermal atoms generated via polarised molecular photodissociation have been used to investigate vector correlations of bimolecular reactions. Doppler-resolved, polarised laser-probe techniques can measure correlations between k (the reagents' relative-velocity vectors), k′ (the reaction products' velocity vectors) and J′ (the products' rotational angular momenta using a simple laboratory to centre-of-mass frame transformation. This approach to the study of the dynamical stereo-chemistry of chemical reactions is illustrated by two examples, O(1D)+N2O→NO+NO and O(3P)+CS→CO+S. © 1991.