| Autor: |
Shi, Weiping, Staroverov, Viktor N., Lipson, R. H. |
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Journal of Chemical Physics; 10/21/2009, Vol. 131 Issue 15, p154304, 7p, 2 Diagrams, 1 Chart, 4 Graphs |
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Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) spectra of 1,2-dibromoethylene (C2H2Br2) obtained using ultraviolet fundamental wavelengths between 280 and 312.5 nm and monitoring Br+ fragments in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer are found to differ dramatically from those reported in the literature by detecting C2H2+. Laser power plots suggest that the initial excitation process is (2+1) REMPI, which accesses parent excited states between 156.25 and 140.84 nm. Unlike the spectra obtained by monitoring C2H2+, the spectra obtained by monitoring Br+ appear to be identical regardless of which parent isomer (cis or trans) is excited. Based on energetics, it is proposed that Br+ ions are formed by excitation and fragmentation of a ground-state 2-bromovinyl radical intermediate (CHBr=CH·) generated by the rapid excited-state dissociation of the parent molecules. Density-functional theory calculations using the hybrid Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof (PBE1PBE) functional and the 6-311++G(3df,3pd) basis set confirm that the barrier to isomerization for the 2-bromovinyl radicals formed from the cis- and trans-1,2-dibromoethylenes is low, which explains why the resultant REMPI spectra cannot be distinguished based on their isomeric origin. Electronic spectra calculated for the 2-bromovinyl radical using the long-range-corrected hybrid PBE functional (LC-ωPBE) are in qualitative agreement with experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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