Rovibrational energy transfer in the 4nuCH manifold of acetylene, viewed by IR-UV double resonance spectroscopy. 5. Detailed kinetic model.
Time-resolved infrared-ultraviolet double resonance (IR-UV DR) spectroscopy provides a distinctive way to examine collision-induced state-to-state energy transfer between rotational J-levels in vibrational manifolds of small polyatomic molecules, such as acetylene (C2H2) in its electronic ground state X. We consider the 4nuCH rovibrational manifold of C2H2 at approximately 12,700 cm(-1), where the principal source of IR-brightness is the (nu1+3nu3) or (1 0 3 0 0)0 Sigma+u vibrational combination level. In this highly congested manifold, anharmonic, l-resonance, and Coriolis couplings affect the J-levels of interest, implicating them in a complicated variety of intramolecular dynamics. Previous papers of this series have reported several seemingly anomalous J-resolved phenomena induced by collisions in C2H2 gas at room temperature with pressures and IR-UV pump-probe delay intervals corresponding to remarkably high Lennard-Jones collisional efficiencies P: odd-DeltaJ rotational energy transfer (10(-3)<P<0.1), in addition to regular even-DeltaJ transfer (P approximately 0.3 for typical |DeltaJ|=2 transfer); particular rovibrational "gateway" channels, such as via (nu1+3nu3) Sigma+u J=12 (with P as high as approximately 0.1); an apparently ubiquitous collision-induced quasi-continuous background (10(-3)<P<0.1) that accounts for much of the observed collision-induced odd-DeltaJ satellite structure. These phenomena have been characterized by means of systematic IR-UV DR kinetic measurements, with IR pump and UV probe wavelengths and sample pressure fixed while the IR-UV pump-probe delay is scanned. In this paper, a detailed master-equation model is constructed to provide a satisfactory phenomenological fit to the IR-UV DR kinetic data, thereby offering mechanistic insight. This model includes collision-induced energy transfer between discrete rovibrational levels in an IR-bright manifold V and a quasi-continuous bath B, mediated by a J-specific gateway manifold G.
Centre for Lasers and Applications, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
Mark A
MA
Payne
Angela P
AP
Milce
Michael J
MJ
Frost
Brian J
BJ
Orr