Electronic to vibrational rotational energy transfer in collisions of Na(3 2P) with NO and small organic molecules
- 15 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 74 (12) , 6757-6762
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.441079
Abstract
The energy ΔEvibrot transferred by quenching Na(3 2P3/2) to internal degrees of freedom of NO and small organic molecules with double bonds (C2H4, C3H6, C4H6, C4H8, and C2H2) has been investigated in a crossed beam experiment with laser excited Na. The results for NO show a maximum cross section for small ΔEvibrot and are critically compared with findings of other groups. The energy transfer spectra of organic molecules show that between 40% and 80% of the available total energy is transferred to the molecule in the average. The results are analyzed in the framework of statistical prior distributions, which give good agreement with the experiment when we assume that only a small number of internal degrees of freedom participates in the reaction.Keywords
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