Experimental evidence for the existence of an electronically excited state of the proposed dihydrogen radical cation He-H-H-He+.
Experimental evidence for the existence of an electronically excited state of the proposed dihydrogen radical cation He-H-H-He+.
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所提出的二氢自由基阳离子 He-H-H-He 存在电子激发态的实验证据。
DOI:
10.1002/chem.200802545
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2009
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P. Scheier
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S. Jaksch;F. Ferreira da Silva;S. Denifl;O. Echt;T. Märk;P. Scheier
Survival of the weakest: The existence of a new class of centrosymmetric radical cations in which H(2) bridges two identical main group elements was recently proposed in this journal by Uggerud and co-workers. By growing complexes inside helium nanodroplets at subkelvin temperatures, we obtained experimental evidence for the existence of the most weakly bound member of this class, He-H-H-He(+) (see picture), although in a metastable, electronically excited state.In a recent report, Uggerud and co-workers (A. Krapp et al., Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 4028) proposed the existence of a new class of radical cations in which a dihydrogen bridges two identical main group elements. Upon electron impact ionization of helium nanodroplets doped with one or more H(2) molecules we observe various He(x)H(y) (+) cluster ions, including He(2)H(2) (+), which would belong to the proposed class of radical cations. Mass-analyzed kinetic energy scans reveal that the ion is metastable; it dissociates in the field-free region of the mass spectrometer. One reaction is into HeH(2) (+) + He with a low kinetic energy release of 15+/-4 meV. Surprisingly, another unimolecular reaction is observed, into HeH(+) + HeH (or He + H). The probability of this reaction is an order of magnitude higher, and the average kinetic energy release is four times larger. These findings suggest the presence of a metastable electronically excited state; they are consistent with the proposed linear, centrosymmetric ion structure of He-H-H-He(+).
DOI:
10.1039/b414368j
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2005
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Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
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Matt-Leubner,Sara;Fedor,Juraj;Parajuli,Rajendra;Stamatovic,Aleksandar;Echt,Olof;Hagelberg,Frank;Głuch,Krzysztof;Probst,Michael;Scheier,Paul;Märk,TilmannD
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Märk,TilmannD