Reaction of ammonia and dioxygen in solid neon excited with far-ultraviolet radiation investigated with electronic and vibrational spectra

Irradiation of dilute mixtures of NH3 and O2 dispersed in solid Ne at 3.6 K with radiation of wave lengths 200, 192.5, 173 and 143 nm from an electron synchrotron initiated photochemical dissociation of those precursors and the production of N, NH, NH2, O, O3, HO2, NO, NO2, N2O, H2O, HONO in both s-cisoid and s-transoid rotational isomers, and HONO2, detected according to their spectra in mid-infrared absorption from 450 to 4000 cm-1, and in absorption and emission from 200 to 1100 nm. HONO2 was not previously detected in related experiments even though our conditions were much more dilute.