Imaging the stereodynamics of Cl + CH4(ν3 = 1): Polarization dependence on the rotational branch and the hyperfine depolarization

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 3878-3883

  Pan, Huilin ^a   Yang, Jiayue ^a,c   Wang, Fengyan ^a,d   Liu, Kopin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; POLARIZATION; REAGENTS;

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; COLLINEAR GEOMETRY; DEPOLARIZATION FACTOR; LINEARLY POLARIZED; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; ROTATIONAL BRANCHES; ROVIBRATIONAL STATE; SPHERICAL TOP MOLECULES;

CHLORINE;

EID: 84908611673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz502088c     Document Type: Article

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