Internal energy distribution of the NCO fragment from near-threshold photolysis of isocyanic acid, HNCO

SS Brown, HL Berghout, FF Crim

Index: Brown, Steven S.; Berghout, H. Laine; Crim, F. Fleming Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996 , vol. 100, # 19 p. 7948 - 7955

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Abstract

We report the first measurement of the vibrational-and rotational-state distributions in the NCO fragment resulting from photolysis of HNCO. Recent studies have drawn conclusions about the photochemistry of HNCO and the vibrational distribution in the NCO fragment from observations of the kinetic energy distribution of the H atom produced in this photolysis; however, there has been no direct observation of the NCO fragment itself. We use laser- ...