Infrared spectroscopy of H(CO) in the gas phase and in para-hydrogen matrices.

The H(CO) and D(CO) molecular ions were investigated by infrared spectroscopy in the gas phase and in para-hydrogen matrices. In the gas phase, ions were generated in a supersonic molecular beam by a pulsed electrical discharge. After extraction into a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, the ions were mass selected and probed by infrared laser photodissociation spectroscopy in the 700 cm-3500 cm region.

IR Spectroscopy of Protonated Acetylacetone and Its Water Clusters: Enol-Keto Tautomers and Ion→Solvent Proton Transfer.

Protonated ions of acetylacetone, H(Hacac), and their argon-tagged analogues are produced via a pulsed discharge and cooled in a supersonic expansion. These ions are mass analyzed, selected in a time-of-flight spectrometer, and studied with infrared laser photodissociation spectroscopy using the method of rare-gas atom tagging. Computational studies at the DFT/B3LYP level are employed to elucidate the structures and spectra of these ions, which are expected to exist as either enol- or keto-based tautomers.

Imaging charge transfer in a cation-π system: velocity-map imaging of Ag(+)(benzene) photodissociation.

Ag(+)(benzene) complexes are generated in the gas phase by laser vaporization and mass selected in a time-of-flight spectrometer. UV laser excitation at either 355 or 266 nm results in dissociative charge transfer (DCT), leading to neutral silver atom and benzene cation products. Kinetic energy release in translationally hot benzene cations is detected using a new instrument designed for photofragment imaging of mass-selected ions.