Local modes of HOOH probed by optical-infrared double resonance
- 15 July 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 95 (2) , 865-871
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.461094
Abstract
We have used an optical-infrared double resonance technique to probe the nature of the eigenstates prepared by 4νOH vibrational overtone excitation in hydrogen peroxide. A visible dye laser excites the 4←0 OH stretch transition and an optical parametric oscillator promotes the molecules above the dissociation threshold by a ΔvOH=2 transition from the 4νOH level. Fixing the overtone excitation laser wavelength and scanning the wavelength of the infrared photon while monitoring the dissociation fragments by laser-induced fluorescence generates an infrared predissociation spectrum of the vibrationally excited molecule that contains information about vibrational state mixing at the 4νOH level. This spectrum indicates that the zeroth-order state that gives oscillator strength to the 4←0 OH stretch transition (i.e., the 4νOH bright state) is almost entirely comprised of a single vibrational eigenstate. Since the bright state is predominantly an OH stretch, the vibrational eigenstate prepared by 4νOH vibrational overtone excitation is well localized on the OH bond. This localization allows us to perform sequential local mode–local mode excitation of the two equivalent OH oscillators in HOOH.Keywords
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