An Investigation of NO Rotational Distribution produced by Photodissociation of Cyclopentadienylnitrosylnickel using Resonance-Enhanced Multi-Photon Excitation for Photoionization
Abstract
The NO radical produced from photodissociation of cyclopentadienylnitrosylnickel was studied using ion-imaging time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Photodissociation of
cyclopentadienylnitrosylnickel occurred at 450 nm producing the NO radical.
Photoexcitation of the NO productoccurredat 225 nm and subsequent photoionization at
308 nm. There is low correlation between velocity and angular momentum, suggesting
that the Ni-NO bond does not bend prior to dissociation.