التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Negative ions of nitroethane and its clusters. |
| المؤلفون: |
Stokes, S. T., Bowen, K. H., Sommerfeld, T., Ard, S., Mirsaleh-Kohan, N., Steill, J. D., Compton, R. N. |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Chemical Physics; 8/14/2008, Vol. 129 Issue 6, p064308, 10p, 2 Diagrams, 5 Charts, 3 Graphs |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ANIONS, PHOTOELECTRON spectroscopy, MOLECULAR spectroscopy, SPECTRUM analysis, DIPOLE moments |
| مستخلص: |
Valence and dipole-bound negative ions of the nitroethane (NE) molecule and its clusters are studied using photoelectron spectroscopy (PES), Rydberg electron transfer (RET) techniques, and ab initio methods. Valence adiabatic electron affinities (EAas) of NE, C2H5NO2, and its clusters, (C2H5NO2)n, n=2–5, are estimated using vibrationally unresolved PES to be 0.3±0.2 eV (n=1), 0.9±0.2 eV (n=2), 1.5±0.2 eV (n=3), 1.9±0.2 eV (n=4), and 2.1±0.2 eV (n=5). These energies were then used to determine stepwise anion-neutral solvation energies and compared with previous literature values. Vertical detachment energies for (C2H5NO2)n- were also measured to be 0.92±0.10 eV (n=1), 1.63±0.10 eV (n=2), 2.04±0.10 eV (n=3), and 2.3±0.1 eV (n=4). RET experiments show that Rydberg electrons can be attached to NE both as dipole-bound and valence bound anion states. The results are similar to those found for nitromethane (NM), where it was argued that the diffuse dipole state act as a “doorway state” to the more tightly bound valence anion. Using previous models for relating the maximum in the RET dependence of the Rydberg effective principle number nmax*, the dipole-bound electron affinity is predicted to be ∼25 meV. However, a close examination of the RET cross section data for NE and a re-examination of such data for NM finds a much broader dependence on n* than is seen for RET in conventional dipole bound states and, more importantly, a pronounced ℓ dependence is found in nmax* (nmax* increases with ℓ). Ab initio calculations agree well with the experimental results apart from the vertical electron affinity value associated with the dipole bound state which is predicted to be 8 meV. Moreover, the calculations help to visualize the dramatic difference in the distributions of the excess electron for dipole-bound and valence states, and suggest that NE clusters form only anions where the excess electron localizes on a single monomer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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