ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Nonadiabatic interactions in the NeICl van der Waals complex have been explored in the lowest energy triad of ICl ion-pair states (∼39 000 cm−1). Dispersed fluorescence measurements reveal emission characteristic of multiple ion-pair electronic states, with the relative contributions from the E(0+), β(1), and D'(2) states changing with the initial ICl vibrational excitation (vICl). Emission directly from NeICl (vICl=0) complexes indicates that the initially prepared NeICl levels have mixed electronic character and that the ICl electronic parentage changes with the initial van der Waals vibrational level selected. NeICl complexes prepared with 1–4 quanta of ICl stretch undergo rapid vibrational predissociation with a strong propensity for ΔvICl=−1 relaxation. The electronic state(s) populated in the ICl fragments differ from the mixed electronic character of the initially prepared level, demonstrating that vibrational predissociation is accompanied by nonadiabatic electronic state changing processes. The observed final state selectivity may be attributed to the relative strength of the nonadiabatic couplings between the initial NeICl bound state and the final ICl states or a momentum gap rationale based on the overlap between the NeICl bound state wave function and the highly oscillatory continuum wave function of the separating fragments.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.460650
