Long-range electron binding to quadrupolar molecules -: art. no. 083003

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Desfrançois, C [1 ]
Bouteiller, Y
Schermann, JP
Radisic, D
Stokes, ST
Bowen, KH
Hammer, NI
Compton, RN
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[1] Univ Paris 13, CNRS, Phys Lasers Lab, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France
[2] Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Chem, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[3] Univ Tennessee, Dept Phys, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
[4] Univ Tennessee, Dept Chem, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.083003
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An excess electron can be bound to a molecule in a very diffuse orbital as a result of the long-range contributions of the molecular electrostatic field. Following a systematic search, we report experimental evidence that quadrupole binding occurs for the trans-succinonitrile molecule (EA=20+/-2 meV), while the gauche-succinonitrile conformer supports a dipole-bound anion state (EA=108+/-10 meV). Theoretical calculations at the DFT/B3LYP level support these interpretations and give electron affinities of 20 and 138 meV, respectively.
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