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Photodissociation Dynamics of Gas-Phase Small Molecules

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Photophysics and Photochemistry in the Vacuum Ultraviolet

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIC,volume 142))

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Abstract

Any detailed discussion of the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photophysics of simple polyatomic molecules must involve consideration of the strong inter-relation between photochemistry and spectroscopy. The present paper concentrates largely on just one photophysical aspect -- photodissociation (i.e., molecular fragmentation as a result of photon absorption) -- since this represents one of the more probable, more interesting and, indeed, more studied consequences of the interaction of VUV photons with gas-phase small molecules. Thus, in the specific examples considered below, neither fluorescence nor photoionization significantly compete with photodissociation as the dominant decay process from the parent-molecule excited states prepared by photon absorption.

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Ashfold, M.N.R. (1985). Photodissociation Dynamics of Gas-Phase Small Molecules. In: McGlynn, S.P., Findley, G.L., Huebner, R.H. (eds) Photophysics and Photochemistry in the Vacuum Ultraviolet. NATO ASI Series, vol 142. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5269-0_12

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