Photodissociation of OCS in the region from 222–248 nm has been investigated by monitoring the CO and S(1D2) primary photoproducts; as well as the secondary production of S(3P2), S(3P1), and S(3P0) using fluorescence induced by a tunable vacuum ultraviolet laser source based on four-wave mixing in magnesium vapor. The quantum yield of S(3P) was found to be 0.00±0.02 at 222 nm. Thus, in contrast to our preliminary report, the present more detailed investigation shows that the sole sulfur product appears to be S(1D). The CO photofragment is produced almost exclusively in v=0 [CO(v=1)/ CO(v=0)≤0.02], but the rotational distribution is inverted and peaked at very high rotational levels. The peak shifts from J=56 for dissociation at 222 nm to J=31 at 248 nm. Doppler profiles of the CO rotational transitions reveal (1) that all observed levels are produced in coincidence with S(1D), (2) that for 222 nm photolysis the fragment recoil anisotropy shifts from a distribution characterized by β=1.9 at J=67 toward one characterized by β=0 near J=54, (3) that the CO velocity vector is aligned nearly perpendicular to its angular momentum vector, and (4) that the CO angular momentum vector is also aligned parallel to that component of the transition dipole which lies perpendicular to the recoil velocity. These results are interpreted in terms of a model for the dissociation in which excitation takes place to two surfaces of A′ and A″ symmetry derived from a bent 1Δ configuration. Dissociation of OCS clusters was also investigated and was found to produce a photochemistry completely different from that of the monomers. Rotationally cold CO as well as S2 in both the X3Σ−g and a1Δg states was observed.

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The depolarization of the rotational angular momentum of electronically excited OH( 2 AE) radicals through collisions with water molecules has been measured using Zeeman quantum beat spectroscopy. The new data have permitted the evaluation of OH(A) state-specific quenching and angular momentum depolarization cross-sections for superthermal OH(A) radicals with mean relative velocities centred around 3500 m s À1 . The quenching cross-sections are compared both with values available in the literature, and with predictions based on a simple harpoon model, and are found to be in good qualitative accord with previous findings. For the lowest rotational levels studied, the depolarization cross-sections (which include contributions from both elastic and inelastic processes in OH(A)) are found to approach s100 Å 2 , only slightly below the high-temperature cross-sections for rotational energy transfer determined elsewhere. The data suggest that under the present conditions rotational energy transfer is accompanied by significant depolarization. The cross-section for the translational moderation of superthermal OH(X) by water is also determined in the present study.