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Vector Correlations Our group was one of the first to recognize that correlations between vector quantites, such as between the recoil velocity and the rotational vector of a product, could be measured from Doppler profiles and could provide important information on dissociation dynamics. The figure above shows some of the CO Doppler profiles from the photodissociation of OCS that first led us to investigate this phenomenon. A brief slide show on the topic G. E. Hall, N. Sivakumar, P. L. Houston, and I. Burak, "Measurement of the Angular Correlation between Recoil Velocity and Angular Momentum Vectors in Molecu lar Photodissociation," Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1671-1674 & 2771 (1986). pdf format E. M. Goldfield, P. L. Houston, and G. S. Ezra, "Nonadiabatic Interactions in the Photodissociation of ICN," J. Chem. Phys. 84, 3120-3129 (1986). G. E. Hall, N. Sivakumar, R. Ogorzalek, G. Chawla, H.-P. Haerri, P. L. Houston, I. Burak, and J. W. Hepburn, "Product Correlations in Photofragment Dynamics," Disc. Farad. Soc. 82, 13 (1986). I. Burak, J. W. Hepburn, N. Sivakumar, G. E. Hall, G. Chawla, and P. L. Houston, "State-to-State Photodissociation Dynamics of trans-Glyoxal," J. Chem. Phys. 86, 1258 (1987). P. L. Houston, "Vector Correlations in Photodissociation Dynamics," J. Phys. Chem. 91, 5388-5397 (1987). G. E. Hall, N. Sivakumar, D. Chawla, P. L. Houston, and I. Burak, "Angular Correlations between Recoil Velocity and Angular Momentum Vectors in Molecular Photodissociation," J. Chem. Phys. 88, 3682-3691 (1988). N. Sivakumar, G. E. Hall, P. L. Houston, I. Burak, and J. W. Hepburn, "State- Resolved Photodissociation Dynamics of OCS Monomers and Clusters," J. Chem. Phys. 88, 3692-3708 (1988). G. E. Hall, R. Ogorzalek Loo, H.-P. Haerri, N. Sivakumar, G. K. Chawla, P. L. Houston, D. W. Chandler, J. W. Hepburn, and I. Burak, "Vector Correlations in the Photodissociation of CH3I, OCS, and Glyoxal," Ber. bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 92, 281-288 (1988). G. E. Hall, N. Sivakumar, G. Chawla, P. L. Houston, I. Burak, I. M. Waller, H. F. Davis and J. W. Hepburn, "Photofragment Spectroscopy with Coherent VUV: Product Correlations and Alignment," AIP Conference Proceedings 160, 1987 (Adv. Laser Sci. 2), pp 170-178. R. Ogorzalek Loo, C. E. Strauss, H.-P. Haerri, G. E. Hall, P. L. Houston, I. Burak, and J. W. Hepburn, "Vector Correlations in the 157-nm Photodissociation of OCS and the 266-nm Photodissociation of Methyl Iodide," J. Chem. Soc. Farad. Trans. 2 85, 925-938 (1989). R. Ogorzalek Loo, H.-P. Haerri, G. E. Hall, and P. L. Houston, "Methyl Vibration, Rotation, and Alignment from a Multiphoton Ionization Study of the 266-nm Photodissociation of Methyl Iodide," J. Chem. Phys. 90, 4222-4236 (1989). C. E. Strauss, P. L. Houston, I. Burak, and J. W. Hepburn, "The 157-nm Photodissociation of OCS," J. Chem. Phys. 90, 5364-5372 (1989). G. E. Hall and P. L. Houston, "Vector Correlations in Photodissociation Dynam ics," Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 40, 375-405 (1989). P. L. Houston, "Correlated Photochemistry: The Legacy of Johann Christian Doppler," Acc. Chem. Res. 22, 309-314 (1989). Bogdan R. Cosofret, H. Mark Lambert, and Paul L. Houston, "Two-photon Photodissociation of NO through Rydberg Levels in the 265-278 nm region: Spectra and Photofragment Angular Distributions," J. Chem. Phys. 117, 8787-8799 (2002). pdf format.   A slide show is also available that discusseses this paper This work was supported by The Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation