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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 8, Issue 25, Pages 2925-2932Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b602825j
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Time-resolved photoion and photoclectron velocity mapped images from NO2 excited close to its first dissociation limit [to NO(X-2 Pi) + O(P-3(2))] have been recorded in a two colour pump-probe experiment, using the frequency-doubled and frequency-tripled output of a regeneratively amplified titanium-sapphire laser. At least three processes are responsible for the observed transient signals; a negative pump-probe signal (corresponding to a 266 nm pump), a very short-lived transient close to the cross-correlation of the pump and probe pulses but on the 400 nm pump side, and a longer-lived positive pump-probe signal that exhibits a signature of wavepacket motion (oscillations). These transients have two main origins; multiphoton excitation of the Rydberg states of NO2 by both 266 and 400 nm light, and electronic relaxation in the 1(2)B(2) state of NO2, which leads to a quasi-dissociaied NO2 high in the 1(2)A(1) electronic ground state and just below the dissociation threshold. The wavepacket motion that we observe is ascribed to states exhibiting free rotation of the O atom about the NO moiety. These states, which are common for loosely bound systems such as a van der Waals complex but unusual for a chemically-bound molecule, have previously been observed in the frequency domain by optical double resonance spectroscopy but never before in the time domain.
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