PHOTODISSOCIATION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE NEGATIVE-ION DIMER OF TOLUQUINONE
PHOTODISSOCIATION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE NEGATIVE-ION DIMER OF TOLUQUINONE
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00259a001
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发表时间:
1987-12-09
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
BRAUMAN, JI
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作者:
COMITA, PB;BRAUMAN, JI
The photodissociation spectrum of the negative ion dimer of toluquinone has been determined in an ion cyclotron resonance spectrometer. A charge resonance transition at 1.9 eV, which displays individual vibronic transitions at high resolution, has been identified. The bond dissociation energyand electron affinity of the dimer were determined from the data. The charge resonance transition was fit to a single-oscillator theoretical model and details of the electronic structure were extracted. The fit to thedata indicates that the odd electron in the radical ion dimer is strongly localized.The nature of the bonding between the constituents of molecular ionic clusters has not yet been well-defined, dueto therelatively little thermodynamic and spectroscopic information available on these species. Molecular ion dimers, the simplest of the clusters, can be taken as a starting point for investigations into the bonding between molecular ions and their corresponding neutrals. We have obtained spectroscopic data for the first time on a negative ion dimer of a quinone via gas-phase photodissociation spectroscopy. The data contain energetic information that hasbeen theoretically analyzed and may help to elucidate the electronic structure of a species which can either be described as a radical ion complexed to a neutral molecule in the localized limit or a species with strong electronic coupling between the subunits in the ground state in the delocalized limit.