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HELIUM NANODROPLET ISOLATION SPECTROSCOPY OF NO2 AND VAN DER WAALS COMPLEXES.

ROBERT R. FEHNEL, KEVIN K. LEHMANN, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, 22904-4319.

We will report the infrared laser spectra of NO2, NO2-N2, NO2 - H2O and NO2 - O2 complexes using Helium Nanodroplet Isolation (HENDI) Spectroscopy. These molecules were excited using an ARGOS cw PPLN OPO (Aculight) in the 3.2 - 3.9 µm spectral window and we excited the nu1 + nu3 transition of NO2.