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The dynamics of these electronic chemically acti-
vated molecules was studied for a large number of
been investigated in Refs. 10–12 and leads exclu-
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sively to OH-radicals in the state OH X P, Õs0 .
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systems 6–8 . The reaction of the singlet imino
The reaction of OH with H2O2 ,
radical with a doublet species has been studied only
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with NO X P . In these reactions, a doublet inter-
mediate is formed which gives rise to crossing over
to the triplet surface, i.e. quenching.
OHqH2O2 ™products,
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The aim of this study was to measure the rate of
has been taken into consideration see below . The
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H2O2 s9.3=
the radical–radical Reaction 1 – a doublet species
absorption coefficient is
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248 nm
with NH in the first electronically excited singlet
state. In this system also, the reaction of the OH
radicals with the HN precursor molecule HN3
10y20 cm2 moleculey1 13–16 , and the photolysis
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quantum yield F248 nm H2O2 s2.09"0.36 17,18 .
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The OH-concentration was observed by the Q1 1 -line
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2
q
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of the OH A S , Õs0§X P, Õs0 transition at
ls307.85 nm. The emitted fluorescence was ob-
served perpendicular to the laser beams. After pass-
ing a filter, to reduce scattered light, the photons
2
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OH X P qHN X ™products
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has to be considered quantitatively.
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were detected by a photomultiplier tube R955,
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2. Experimental
Hammatsu .
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The NH a D radicals were produced in the
1
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The experiments were performed in a quasistatic
HN3-photolysis which leads mainly to NH a D in
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reaction cell i.e. the duration between two photoly-
the vibronic states Õs0 and Õs1 with high rota-
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tional energies 19 . Under the experimental condi-
sis pulses is large enough to yield a complete ex-
change of the gas volume; on the time scale between
pump and probe pulse the flow is negligible with a
photolysisrLIF system. The experimental arrange-
ment is described in detail elsewhere 7,9 . Briefly, it
consists of a photolysis and a detection laser system.
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tions applied 20 mbar He , the rotational energies
are relaxed by collisions with the inert gas He to
room temperature in a time of 1 ms after the photoly-
.
1
X
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sis 20,21 . The transition NH c P, Õ s0,§a D,
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1
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Õ s0 was used to follow the NH a D concentra-
tion time profile over the wavelength range 325(
lrnm(328.
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The latter consists of a dye laser FL3002, Lambda
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Physik that was optically pumped by an exiplex
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laser LPX 205, Lambda Physik . The pump laser
All measurements were done with He as the
carrier gas at room temperature and a pressure of 20
mbar.
pulses had energies of 200–400 mJ and a duration of
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ts14 ns FMHW ls308 nm, XeCl . The probe
beam has a cross-section of about 9 mm2 and pulse
energy densities of 20(ErmJ cmy2 (220. Fre-
quency doubled light was obtained by a KPD crystal
Gases were supplied with the highest commer-
cially available purities He)99.9999%, Praxair .
HN3 was produced by melting a mixture of stearic
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NaN3, Merck . The gas was dried with CaCl2 and
FL30, Lambda Physik and led to energy densities
acid C17 H35COOH, Merck and sodium azide
between 2 and 3 mJrcm2. In all experiments, the
pulse energy was high enough to saturate the transi-
tion to the electronically excited states. For the pho-
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stored in a bulb ps1 bar diluted in Ar )
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99.9999%, Praxair . The maximum molefraction of
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tolysis, an exiplex laser LPX 205, Lambda Physik,
HN3 was XHN (0.17.
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ls248 nm, KrF was used. The photolysis beam
Commercially available H2O2 85%, Solvay In-
terox was enriched to 99% by trap-to-trap distilla-
tion at Ts78 K. The H2O2 concentration in the
liquid was measured via KMnO4 titration. The H2O2
concentration in the gas phase on the way to the
reaction cell was determined by freezing the gas
had a cross-section of about 1.4 cm2 with pulse
energy densities of 0.7(ErmJ cmy2 (23. A vari-
able delay between the pulse of the photolysis and
the probe laser in the range 0(tRrms(400 yielded
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the time resolution.
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The OH X P radicals were produced by the
stream in a N2 l -trap and titrating the amount of
photolysis of H2O2. This photolysis process has
H2O2 frozen in a given time.