Presidential Young Investigator Award: Chemical Dynamics of Rovibrationally Excited Molecules

在这个实验物理化学项目中， 瓦卡罗将研究光谱学， 弛豫和化学反应性的旋转振动激发 多原子分子作为大小和 分子框架的激发类型。 第一 多原子反应动力学的态-态测量 将被执行。 新型多共振激光技术 将用于制备特定的分子， 旋转振动态 %%% 研究多原子分子的反应性， 化学上有意义的激发能是 重要的是因为它们可以揭示 空气动力学和燃烧相关过程。 从根本 科学水平，这些短暂的物种可以揭示很多 关于这种现象的性质和起源， 键特异性化学和量子混沌

In this project in the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Vaccaro will study the spectroscopy, relaxation, and chemical reactivity of rovibrationally excited polyatomic molecules as a function of both the magnitude and type of excitation of the molecular framework. The first state-to-state measurements of polyatomic reaction dynamics will be performed. Novel multiple-resonance laser techniques will be used to prepare molecules in specific rotation-vibration states. %%% Studies of the reactivity of polyatomic molecules which contain chemically significant quantities of energy of excitation are important because of the information they can reveal about aeronomic and combustion-related processes. On a fundamental scientific level, these transient species can reveal much regarding the nature and origin of such phenomena as mode- or bond-specific chemistry and quantum chaos.