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The Photodissociation of HCO

HCO is an important radical in atmospheric chemistry and combustion. We have studied its dissociation to give H + CO, particularly through long-lived resonances accessed by stimulated emission pumping. The excellent agreement between theory and experiment confirm how well this system is understood.

The figure above shows the HCO potential energy surface.

  • S. H. Kable, J.-C. Loison, P. L. Houston, and I. Burak, "The Photochemistry of the Formyl Radical: Energy Content of the Photoproducts," J. Chem. Phys. 92, 6332-6333 (1990).

  • J.-C. Loison, S. H. Kable, P. L. Houston, and I. Burak, "Photofragment Excitation Spectroscopy of the Formyl (HCO/DCO) Radical: Linewidths and Predissociation Rates of the A(A") State," J. Chem. Phys. 94, 1796-1802 (1991).

  • S. H. Kable, J.-C. Loison, D. W. Neyer, P. L. Houston, I. Burak, and R. N. Dixon, "Observation of a Parallel Recoil Distribution from a Perpendicular Absorption Transition in HCO and DCO," J. Phys. Chem. 95, 8013 (1991).

  • D. W. Neyer, S. H. Kable, J.-C. Loison, P. L. Houston, I Burak, and E. M. Goldfield, "CO Product Distributions from the Visible Photodissociation of HCO," J. Chem. Phys. 97, 9036 (1992).

  • D. W. Neyer, X. Luo, P. L. Houston, and I. Burak, "CO Product Distributions from Metastable Levels of HCO (2A ) Prepared by Stimulated Emission Pump ing, J. Chem. Phys. 98, 5095-5098 (1993).

  • D. W. Neyer and P. L. Houston, "The HCO Potential Energy Surface; Probes using Molecular Scattering and Photodissociation," in The Chemical Dynamics and Kinetics of Small Radicals, K. Liu and A. Wagner, eds., pp. 469-503 (Advanced Series in Physical Chemistry Vol 6, World Scientific, Singapore, 1995). pdf format

  • D. W. Neyer, X. Luo, I. Burak and P. L. Houston, "Photodissociation Dynamics of State-selected Resonances of HCO X 2A' Prepared by Stimulated Emission Pumping," J. Chem. Phys. 102, 1645-1657 (1995). Abstract (HTML)
This work was supported by the

The Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation


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