D. Mordaunt, R. Dixon, M. Ashfold
May 1, 1996
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The technique of H(D) Rydberg atom photofragment translational spectroscopy has been used to investigate the photodissociation dynamics of the mixed isotopomers NH2D and NHD2 following the excitation to the v2′=0 and 1 levels of their lowest lying A 1B1 (C2v) excited electronic states. Peaks in the resulting total kinetic energy release (TKER) spectra are assigned to levels of the NH2, NHD, or ND2 fragments with a wide range of quantum numbers Ka for rotation about their a inertial axes, and with N=Ka, N=Ka+1, or N=Ka+2 as appropriate. These data provide the first measurements of high rotational levels for the ground electronic state of the NHD radical. The least squares fitting of all these spectra, and those resulting from NH3 and ND3, to the best calculated NH2, NHD, and/or ND2 rotational term values provides accurate estimations of the respective N–H and N–D bond dissociation energies D00 across the whole series. These values are D00(H–NH2)=37 115±20 cm−1 (4.602±0.002 eV); D00(H–NHD)=37 240±50 cm−1; ...