OBSERVATION OF A NEW RO-VIBRONIC BAND OF OOH FREE RADICAL GENERATED FROM $H_{2}O_{2}$ DECOMPOSITION ON GLASS SURFACES
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1988
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Ohio State University
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A new ro-vibronic band of ooH free radical near 760 nm has been detected using intracavity photoacoustic spectroscopy. The transition is believed to populate a highly vibrationally excited level in the $^{2}A^{\prime}$ electronic manifold. A computer simulation of the rotational structure unambiguously assigns the spectrum. Suggestions are made as to the way in which OOH is formed. It is found that the free radical is completely absent in the presence of oxygen in spite of the fact that a reaction between OOH and $O_{2}$ is not known.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, Indiana University