Nuclear spin/parity dependent spectroscopy and predissociation dynamics in vOH = 2 ← 0 overtone excited Ne–H2O clusters: Theory and experiment
[3];
[4];
- Analog Devices, Inc., Golden, CO (United States)
- West Pharmaceuticals Services Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Eschweiler (Germany)
- Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium). Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique
- Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Theoretical Chemistry, Inst. for Molecules and Materials
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). JILA, National Inst. of Standards and Technology, and Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Vibrationally state selective overtone spectroscopy and state- and nuclear spin-dependent predissociation dynamics of weakly bound ortho- and para-Ne–H2O complexes (D0(ortho) = 34.66 cm-1 and D0(para) = 31.67 cm-1) are reported, based on near-infrared excitation of van der Waals cluster bands correlating with vOH = 2 ← 0 overtone transitions (|02-⟩ and |02+⟩) out of the ortho (101) and para (000) internal rotor states of the H2O moiety. Quantum theoretical calculations for nuclear motion on a high level potential energy surface [CCSD(T)/VnZf12 (n = 3, 4)], corrected for basis set superposition error and extrapolated to the complete basis set (CBS) limit, are employed to successfully predict and assign Π–Σ, Σ–Σ, and Σ–Π infrared bands in the spectra, where Σ or Π represent approximate projections of the body-fixed H2O angular momentum along the Ne–H2O internuclear axis. IR-UV pump-probe experimental capabilities permit real-time measurements of the vibrational predissociation dynamics, which indicate facile intramolecular vibrational energy transfer from the H2O vOH = 2 overtone vibrations into the VdWs (van der Waals) dissociation coordinate on the τprediss = 15-25 ns time scale. Whereas all predicted strong transitions in the ortho-Ne–H2O complexes are readily detected and assigned, vibrationally mediated photolysis spectra for the corresponding para-Ne–H2O bands are surprisingly absent despite ab initio predictions of Q-branch intensities with S/N > 20-40. Such behavior signals the presence of highly selective nuclear spin ortho-para predissociation dynamics in the upper state, for which we offer a simple mechanism based on Ne-atom mediated intramolecular vibrational relaxation in the H2O subunit (i.e., |02±⟩ → {|01±⟩ v2 = 2}), which is confirmed by the ab initio energy level predictions and the nascent OH rotational (N), spin orbit (Π1/2,3/2), and lambda doublet product distributions.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0002123; FG02-09ER16021
- OSTI ID:
- 1512940
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1410876; OSTI ID: 1924539
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 147, Issue 21; ISSN 0021-9606
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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