Phenanthrene: establishing lower and upper bounds to the binding energy of a very weakly bound anion

Autor: Elisabeth Gruber, Siegfried Kollotzek, Stefan Bergmeister, Fabio Zappa, Milan Ončák, Paul Scheier, Olof Echt
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24:5138-5143
ISSN: 1463-9084
1463-9076
Popis: Quite a few molecules do not form stable anions that survive the time needed for their detection; their electron affinities (EA) are either very small or negative. How does one measure the EA if the anion cannot be observed? Or, at least, can one establish lower and upper bounds to their EA? We propose two approaches that provide lower and upper bounds. We choose the phenanthrene (Ph) molecule whose EA is controversial. Through competition between helium evaporation and electron detachment in He
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