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It has been known since the earliest investigations of photochemistry that energy scrambling in a molecule can lead to dissociation if the total energy of a molecule exceeds the dissociation limit of one or more molecular bonds. But how complete is the scrambling, and what does it tell us about the nature of the potential energy surfaces or the mechanism of dissociation? A partial answer to these questions can be gained by a newly developed experimental technique that uses one laser to dissociate a parent molecule and a second to probe the energy distribution of the photofragments.
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Houston, P.L. (1983). The Photodissociation Dynamics of H2S and CF3NO. In: Hinze, J. (eds) Energy Storage and Redistribution in Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3667-9_6
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