Photodissociation cage effect in van der Waals complexes: Fluorescence spectra of I/sub 2/ B(/sup 3/Pi/sub 0+u/) from the hindered photodissociation of I/sub 2/Ar at 488 nm

Journal Article · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982 · J. Chem. Phys.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5168160

Valentini, J J; Cross, J B

The B..-->..X fluorescence from I/sub 2/ produced in the hindered photodissociation of I/sub 2/Ar at 488 nm has been resolved. The spectra show several vibrational progressions with low rotational energy, the most prominent of these is a (v',0) progression extending from v' = 49 to at least v' = 23. The I/sub 2/Ar complexes were excited and the I/sub 2/ fluorescence was observed under collision-free conditions in a supersonic free-jet expansion. We attribute these observation to one-atom photodissociation cage effect in the I/sub 2/Ar comples, in which the molecular iodine, although excited more than 400 cm/sup -1/ above B state dissociation limit, is prevented from dissociating by energy transfer to the argon atom, resulting in the breaking of the van der Waals bond: I/sub 2/Ar..-->..I/sub 2/(B)+Ar, leaving the iodine molecule in a bound level of the B electronic state, 386--1889 cm/sup -1/ below the dissociation limit. (AIP)

• Research Organization: University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
• OSTI ID: 5168160
• Journal Information: J. Chem. Phys.; (United States), Vol. 77:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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