Study of unimolecular reactions by Coulomb explosion imaging: The nondecaying vinylidene

被引:99
作者
Levin, J [1 ]
Feldman, H [1 ]
Baer, A [1 ]
Ben-Hamu, D [1 ]
Heber, O [1 ]
Zajfman, D [1 ]
Vager, Z [1 ]
机构
[1] Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Particle Phys, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
关键词
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3347
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Isomerization of a highly excited vibrational state of acetylene was studied using the Coulomb explosion imaging technique. A vinylidene isomer was prepared by electron photodetachment of the negative molecular ion and the corresponding distribution function of the nuclear configurations of the molecule was sampled after a time period of 3.5 mu s. The population of the vinylidene isomer was found to be significantly high (similar to 50%), in contrast to the commonly accepted notion of vinylidene as a short-lived isomer. [S0031-9007(98)07417-1].
引用
收藏
页码:3347 / 3350
页数:4
相关论文
共 18 条
[1]   INTRAMOLECULAR RADIATIONLESS TRANSITIONS [J].
BIXON, M ;
JORTNER, J .
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 1968, 48 (02) :715-&
[2]   ULTRATHIN FOILS FOR COULOMB-EXPLOSION EXPERIMENTS [J].
BOTH, G ;
KANTER, EP ;
VAGER, Z ;
ZABRANSKY, BJ ;
ZAJFMAN, D .
REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, 1987, 58 (03) :424-427
[3]   VINYLIDENE - POTENTIAL-ENERGY SURFACE AND UNIMOLECULAR REACTION DYNAMICS [J].
CARRINGTON, T ;
HUBBARD, LM ;
SCHAEFER, HF ;
MILLER, WH .
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 1984, 80 (09) :4347-4354
[4]   Extended ab initio studies of the vinylidene-acetylene rearrangement [J].
Chang, NY ;
Shen, MY ;
Yu, CH .
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 1997, 106 (08) :3237-3242
[5]   HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPIC DETECTION OF ACETYLENE-VINYLIDENE ISOMERIZATION BY SPECTRAL CROSS-CORRELATION [J].
CHEN, YQ ;
JONAS, DM ;
KINSEY, JL ;
FIELD, RW .
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 1989, 91 (07) :3976-3987
[6]   VINYLIDENE-ACETYLENE REARRANGEMENT - SELF-CONSISTENT ELECTRON PAIRS STUDY OF A MODEL UNIMOLECULAR REACTION [J].
DYKSTRA, CE ;
SCHAEFER, HF .
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 1978, 100 (05) :1378-1382
[7]   A STUDY OF THE SINGLET AND TRIPLET-STATES OF VINYLIDENE BY PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF H2C=C-, D2C=C-, AND HDC=C- - VINYLIDENE ACETYLENE ISOMERIZATION [J].
ERVIN, KM ;
HO, J ;
LINEBERGER, WC .
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 1989, 91 (10) :5974-5992
[8]  
Feshbach H, 1991, THEORETICAL NUCL PHY
[9]  
GOODE CG, 1974, ADV MASS SPECTROM, V6, P797
[10]   POTENTIAL MODELS AND LOCAL MODE VIBRATIONAL EIGENVALUE CALCULATIONS FOR ACETYLENE [J].
HALONEN, L ;
CHILD, MS ;
CARTER, S .
MOLECULAR PHYSICS, 1982, 47 (05) :1097-1112