Hydroxyl super rotors from vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of water

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 ma...

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09176-z