Nature Communications (Mar 2019)
Hydroxyl super rotors from vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of water
- Yao Chang,
- Yong Yu,
- Heilong Wang,
- Xixi Hu,
- Qinming Li,
- Jiayue Yang,
- Shu Su,
- Zhigang He,
- Zhichao Chen,
- Li Che,
- Xingan Wang,
- Weiqing Zhang,
- Guorong Wu,
- Daiqian Xie,
- Michael N. R. Ashfold,
- Kaijun Yuan,
- Xueming Yang
Affiliations
- Yao Chang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yong Yu
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Heilong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xixi Hu
- Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University
- Qinming Li
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jiayue Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shu Su
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhigang He
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhichao Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Li Che
- Department of Physics, School of Science, Dalian Maritime University
- Xingan Wang
- Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Weiqing Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guorong Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Daiqian Xie
- Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University
- Michael N. R. Ashfold
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol
- Kaijun Yuan
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xueming Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09176-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Free electron lasers provide a state-of-the-art tool to investigate the photochemistry of water. Here, the authors show that highly rotationally excited hydroxyl radicals, so-called “super rotors” existing above the bond dissociation energy, are observed from the photodissociation of water, which may have implications for understanding the interstellar medium.
