Gas-phase structural isomer identification by Coulomb explosion of aligned molecules

Autor: Burt, Michael, Amini, Kasra, Lee, Jason W. L., Christiansen, Lars, Johansen, Rasmus R., Kobayashi, Yuki, Pickering, James D., Vallance, Claire, Brouard, Mark, Stapelfeldt, Henrik
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: J. Chem. Phys. 148, 091102 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1063/1.5023441
Popis: The gas-phase structures of four difluoroiodobenzene and two dihydroxybromobenzene isomers were identified by correlating the emission angles of atomic fragment ions created following femtosecond laser-induced Coulomb explosion. The structural determinations were facilitated by confining the most polarizable axis of each molecule to the detection plane prior to the Coulomb explosion event using one-dimensional laser-induced adiabatic alignment. For a molecular target consisting of two difluoroiodobenzene isomers, each constituent structure could additionally be singled out and distinguished.
Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures. Published as a communication in the Journal of Chemical Physics
Databáze: arXiv