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Communication: Observation of homonuclear propensity in collisional relaxation of the 13C12CD2 (v2 = 1) isotopologue of acetylene by stimulated Raman spectroscopy
4 p.: gráf.We report the first experimental observation of homonuclear propensity in collisional relaxation of a polyatomic molecule. A pump-probe stimulated Raman setup is used to pump population to a single rotational level of the v2 = 1 vibrationally excited state in 13C12CD2 and then monitor the redistribution of the rotational population that has taken place after a fixed delay. The Q-branch of
the 2ν2–ν2 band shows a pattern of intensity alternation between the even and the odd rotational components, with the greater intensities always corresponding to the rotational levels with the same parity as the one where all the population was initially deposited. The effect can be explained by the
existence of a propensity rule that favors collisional relaxation between rovibrational levels of the same parity. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.Funding received from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through research Grant No. FIS2009-08069; support from CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 Program CSD2009-00038Peer reviewe
Communication: Observation of homonuclear propensity in collisional relaxation of the 13C12CD2 (v2 = 1) isotopologue of acetylene by stimulated Raman spectroscopy
We report the first experimental observation of homonuclear propensity in collisional relaxation of
a polyatomic molecule. A pump-probe stimulated Raman setup is used to pump population to a
single rotational level of the v2 = 1 vibrationally excited state in 13C12CD2 and then monitor the
redistribution of the rotational population that has taken place after a fixed delay. The Q-branch of
the 2\u3bd2\u2013\u3bd2 band shows a pattern of intensity alternation between the even and the odd rotational
components, with the greater intensities always corresponding to the rotational levels with the same
parity as the one where all the population was initially deposited. The effect can be explained by the
existence of a propensity rule that favors collisional relaxation between rovibrational levels of the
same parity