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Ane Riis Gadegaard1, Jan Thøgersen1, Svend Knak Jensen1
1Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Abstract:
We investigate the formation of aqueous nitrogen dioxide, NO2 formed through femtosecond photolysis of nitrate, NO₃⁻ and nitromethane CH3NO2(aq). Common to the experiments is the observation of a strong induced absorption at 1610 ± 10 cm(-1), assigned to the asymmetric stretch vibration in the ground state of NO2. This assignment is substantiated through isotope experiments substituting (14)N by (15)N, experiments at different pH values, and by theoretical calculations and simulations of NO2-D2O clusters.
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