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American Institute of Physics, Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics, 6(26), p. 669-678

DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/26/06/669-678

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State‐to‐state Photoionization Dynamics of Vanadium Nitride by Two‐color Laser Photoionization and Photoelectron Methods

Journal article published in 2013 by Huang Huang, Zhi‐hong Luo, Yih Chung Chang, Kai‐Chung Lau ORCID, C. Y. Ng
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Abstract

We have conducted a two‐color visible‐ultraviolet (VIS‐UV) resonance‐enhanced laser photoionization and pulsed field ionization‐photoelectron (PFI‐PE) study of gaseous vanadium mononitride (VN) in the total energy range of 56900–59020 cm−1. The VN molecules were selectively excited to single rotational levels of the intermediate VN(D 3Π0, v′=0) state by using a VIS dye laser prior to photoionization by employing a UV laser. This two‐color scheme allows the measurements of rovibronically selected and resolved PFI‐PE spectra for the VN+(X 2Δ; v +=0, 1, and 2) ion vibrational bands. By simulating the rotationally resolved PFI‐PE spectra, J +=3/2 is determined to be the lowest rotational level of the ground electronic state, indicating that the symmetry of the ground VN+ electronic state is 2Δ3/2. The analysis of the PFI‐PE spectra for VN+ also yields accurate values for the adiabatic ionization energy for the formation of VN+(X 2Δ3/2), IE(VN)=56909.5±0.8 cm−1 (7.05588±0.00010 eV), the vibrational frequency ωe +=1068.0±0.8 cm−1, the anharmonicity constant ωe +χe +=5.8±0.8 cm−1, the rotational constants B e +=0.6563±0.0005 cm−1 and αe +=0.0069±0.0004 cm−1, and the equilibrium bond length, r e +=1.529 Å, for VN+(X 2Δ3/2); along with the rotational constants B e +=0.6578±0.0028 cm−1 and αe +=0.0085±0.0028 cm−1, and the equilibrium bond length r e +=1.527 Å for VN+(X 2Δ5/2), and the spin‐orbit coupling constant A=153.3±0.8 cm−1 for VN+(X 2Δ5/2,3/2). The highly precise energetic and spectroscopic data obtained in the present study are valuable for benchmarking the predictions based on state‐of‐the‐art ab initio quantum calculations.