Journal article
Gas-phase synthesis and vibronic action spectroscopy of Ag 2H
R Mitrić, J Petersen, A Kulesza, MIS Röhr, V Bonačić-Koutecký, C Brunet, R Antoine, P Dugourd, M Broyer, RAJ Ohair
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters | AMER CHEMICAL SOC | Published : 2011
DOI: 10.1021/jz101733v
Abstract
We present the first vibrationally resolved electronic spectrum for the isolated silver hydride cation Ag2H+, which has been synthesized by multistage mass spectrometry in a quadrupole ion trap. The experimental photofragmentation spectrum has been obtained by action spectroscopy. High-level ab initio simulations reproduce experimental findings and provide precise assignment of structural properties of ground and excited electronic states of Ag2H+, which serves as an intermediate in important chemical reactions such as carbon-carbon coupling. © 2011 American Chemical Society.
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Funding Acknowledgements
R.A.J.O thanks the Australian Research Council for financial support through the CoE program, the Universite de Lyon for a visiting Professorship, and the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne for a short-term study leave. V.B.-K. and P.D. thank the Hubert Curien Program for bilateral funding (Procope n<SUP>o</SUP> 50068937). Financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is acknowledged in the frame of the Emmy Noether program, MI-1236 (R.M. and A.K.) as well as of the Research Unit FOR 1282 (R.M. and J.P.). J.P. also thanks the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for financial support.