Rotationally selective mode-to-mode vibrational energy transfer in D2CO/D2CO and D2CO/Ar collisions

Abstract
Infrared–ultraviolet double resonance is used to investigate fast (approximately gas–kinetic) vibrational energy transfer between the ν6 and ν4 modes of D2CO, arising from collisions with either D2CO or Ar. Relaxation channels specific to particular rotational states (J, Ka) are characterized and rationalized in terms of Coriolis coupling and quasielastic collisional interactions.