Nitrogen excitation

For 77 K fluorescence variations measurements, two leaves were applied against a multibranched optical guide which was then immersed in liquid nitrogen. Excitation light was from a He-Ne laser (632.8 nm, 12 rrti.cm J The fluorescence was measured through a broad (30 nm bandwidth) interference filter at 695 nm using an EMI photomultiplier. 

The sample is burned in oxygen at 1000°C. Nitrogen oxide, NO, is formed and transformed into NO2 by ozone, the NO2 thus formed being in an excited state NO. The return to the normal state of the molecule is accompanied by the emission of photons which are detected by photometry. This type of apparatus is very common today and is capable of reaching detectable limits of about 0.5 ppm. 

Nitrogen molecules, a major constituent of air, are excited by electron collisions and the excitation energy is transferred to the O 2 molecules, or the N2 molecules may be dissociated and O atoms fonned via the reactions... 

Figure C3.3.5 shows typical data obtained from experimental studies of tlie type described above, where tlie hot donor is tlie nitrogen heterocycle pyrazine, C Fl N, initially excited by an excinier laser to an energy of 40 640...

A bathochromic shift of about 5 nm results for the 320-nm band when a methyl substituent is introduced either in the 4- or 5-posiiion, The reverse is observed when the methyl is attached to nitrogen (56). Solvent effects on this 320-nm band suggest that in the first excited state A-4-thiazoline-2-thione is less basic than in the ground state (61). Ultraviolet spectra of a large series of A-4-thiazoline-2-thiones have been reported (60. 73). 

The method of excitation was, in the early days, by an electron beam but now a transverse electrical discharge, like that for the nitrogen laser shown in Figure 9.14, is used. Indeed such an excimer laser can be converted to a nitrogen laser by changing the gas. 

A study of interaction of sodium atoms with vibrationaHy excited nitrogen molecules at the intersection of two gas beams shows that conversion of vibrational energy to electronic excitation is substantially more efficient than conversion of translational energy (179). This has also been indicated in other reactions (180). 

Recombination reactions are highly exothermic and are inefficient at low pressures because the molecule, as initially formed, contains all of the vibrational energy required for redissociation. Addition of an inert gas increases chemiluminescence by removing excess vibrational energy by coUision (192,193). Thus in the nitrogen afterglow chemiluminescence efficiency increases proportionally with nitrogen pressure at low pressures up to about 33 Pa (0.25 torr) (194). However, inert gas also quenches the excited product and above about 66 Pa (0.5 torr) the two effects offset each other, so that chemiluminescence intensity becomes independent of pressure (192,195). 

NO2 refers to the excited nitrogen oxide molecule. These molecules can decay by emission of light of wavelengths longer than 600 nm.- ... 

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