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Le Duc V, Zou J, Osterwalder A. Alignment of ND3 molecules in dc-electric fields. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:204305. [PMID: 38804496 DOI: 10.1063/5.0210431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2024] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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The control of movement and orientation of gas-phase molecules has become the focus of many research areas in molecular physics. Here, ND3 molecules are polarized in a segmented, curved electrostatic guide and adiabatically aligned inside a rotatable mass spectrometer (MS). Alignment is probed by photoionization using a linearly polarized laser. Rotation of the polarization at fixed MS orientation has the same effect as the rotation of the MS at fixed polarization, proving that the molecular alignment adiabatically follows the MS axis. Polarization-dependent ion signals reveal state-specific populations and allow for a quantification of the aligned sample in the space-fixed reference frame.
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- Viet Le Duc
- Institute for Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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González-Férez R, Omiste JJ. Full control of the orientation of non-symmetric molecules using weak and moderate electric fields. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:4533-4540. [PMID: 38241023 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp05592b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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We investigate the full control over the orientation of a planar non-symmetric molecule by using moderate and weak electric fields. Quantum optimal control techniques allow us to orient any axis of 6-chloropyridazine-3-carbonitrile, which is taken as prototype example here, along the electric field direction. We perform a detailed analysis by exploring the impact on the molecular orientation of the time scale and strength of the control field. The underlying physical phenomena allowing for the control of the orientation are interpreted in terms of the frequencies contributing to the field-dressed dynamics and to the driving field by a spectral analysis.
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- Rosario González-Férez
- Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y Computacional and Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Yamashita T, Miyamura N, Kawai S. Classification of the HCN isomerization reaction dynamics in Ar buffer gas via machine learning. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:124116. [PMID: 38127399 DOI: 10.1063/5.0156313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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The effect of the presence of Ar on the isomerization reaction HCN ⇄ CNH is investigated via machine learning. After the potential energy surface function is developed based on the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVQZ level ab initio calculations, classical trajectory simulations are performed. Subsequently, with the aim of extracting insights into the reaction dynamics, the obtained reactivity, that is, whether the reaction occurs or not under a given initial condition, is learned as a function of the initial positions and momenta of all the atoms in the system. The prediction accuracy of the trained model is greater than 95%, indicating that machine learning captures the features of the phase space that affect reactivity. Machine learning models are shown to successfully reproduce reactivity boundaries without any prior knowledge of classical reaction dynamics theory. Subsequent analyses reveal that the Ar atom affects the reaction by displacing the effective saddle point. When the Ar atom is positioned close to the N atom (resp. the C atom), the saddle point shifts to the CNH (HCN) region, which disfavors the forward (backward) reaction. The results imply that analyses aided by machine learning are promising tools for enhancing the understanding of reaction dynamics.
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- Takefumi Yamashita
- Laboratory for Systems Biology and Medicine, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
- Department of Physical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hoshi University, 2-4-41 Ebara, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan
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- Laboratory for Systems Biology and Medicine, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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Rutigliano M, Pirani F. Scattering of N2 Molecules from Silica Surfaces: Effect of Polymorph and Surface Temperature. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27217445. [PMID: 36364269 PMCID: PMC9658541 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27217445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The inelastic scattering of N2 molecules from silica surfaces, taken at 100 K, has been investigated by adopting a semiclassical collision model in conjunction with the appropriate treatment of the long-range interaction forces. Such forces promote the formation of the precursor state that controls all basic elementary processes occurring at the gas–surface interphase. The probabilities for the different elementary surface processes triggered by quartz are determined and compared with those recently obtained for another silica polymorph (cristobalite). In addition, the final roto-vibrational distributions of N2 molecules undergoing inelastic scattering have been characterized. N2 molecules, impinging on both considered surfaces in low-medium vibrational states, preserve the initial vibrational state, while those inelastically scattered are rotationally excited and translationally colder. The surface temperature effect, investigated by raising the temperature itself from 100 K up to 1000 K, emerges more sharply for the cristobalite polymorph, mainly for the molecules impinging in the ground roto-vibrational state and with low collision energies.
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- Maria Rutigliano
- CNR-ISTP (Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi), Via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy
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Correa E, Albernaz AF, Barreto PR, Aquilanti V. Long-range strength and anisotropies of molecule-molecule interactions: Ab initio calculations, spherical harmonics expansions, and the second virial coefficient for the H2⋯F2 gaseous mixture. Chem Phys Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2021.138845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Rutigliano M, Pirani F. The role of long-range interactions on the selectivity of gaseous molecule-surface scattering. Chem Phys Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2021.138444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Lietard A, Gallician G, Tan J, Gaveau MA, Briant M, Soep B, Mestdagh JM, Poisson L. Characterisation and modeling of a pulsed molecular beam. Mol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2020.1737743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- A. Lietard
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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de Araujo Oliveira AL, de Macedo LGM, de Oliveira Só YA, Martins JBL, Pirani F, Gargano R. Nature and role of the weak intermolecular bond in enantiomeric conformations of H 2O 2–noble gas adducts: a chiral prototypical model. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d0nj06135b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The role and nature of the weak intermolecular bond in the H2O2–noble gas enantiomeric conformations are presented. Charge transfer associated with the formation of a weak intermolecular hydrogen bond tends to stabilize the cis-barrier conformation.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica
- Biologia e Biotecnologie
- Universitá degli Studi di Perugia
- Perugia
- Italy
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Yachmenev A, Thesing LV, Küpper J. Laser-induced dynamics of molecules with strong nuclear quadrupole coupling. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:244118. [PMID: 31893871 DOI: 10.1063/1.5133837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present a general variational approach for computing the laser-induced rovibrational dynamics of molecules, taking into account the hyperfine effects of the nuclear quadrupole coupling. The method combines the general variational approach TROVE (Theoretical Ro-Vibrational Energies), which provides accurate rovibrational hyperfine energies and wavefunctions for arbitrary molecules, with the variational method RichMol, designed for generalized simulations of the rovibrational dynamics in the presence of external electric fields. We investigate the effect of the nuclear quadrupole coupling on the short-pulse laser alignment of a prototypical molecule CFClBrI, which contains nuclei with large quadrupole constants. The influence of the nuclear quadrupole interactions on the postpulse molecular dynamics is negligible at early times, for the first several revivals; however, at longer time scales, the effect is entirely detrimental and strongly depends on the laser intensity. This effect can be explained by dephasing in the laser-excited rotational wavepacket due to irregular spacings between the hyperfine-split nuclear spin states across different rotational hyperfine bands.
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- Andrey Yachmenev
- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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Wolf J, Deiß M, Hecker Denschlag J. Hyperfine Magnetic Substate Resolved State-to-State Chemistry. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:253401. [PMID: 31922776 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.253401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We extend state-to-state chemistry to a realm where besides vibrational, rotational, and hyperfine quantum states magnetic quantum numbers are also resolved. For this, we make use of the Zeeman effect, which energetically splits levels of different magnetic quantum numbers. The chemical reaction which we choose to study is three-body recombination in an ultracold quantum gas of ^{87}Rb atoms forming weakly bound Rb_{2} molecules. Here, we find the propensity rule that the total m_{F} quantum number of the two atoms forming the molecule is conserved. Our method can be employed for many other reactions and inelastic collisions and will allow for novel insights into few-body processes.
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- Joschka Wolf
- Institut für Quantenmaterie and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology IQST, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Institut für Quantenmaterie and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology IQST, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Institut für Quantenmaterie and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology IQST, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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Nakamura M, Chang HP, Lin KC, Kasai T, Che DC, Palazzetti F, Aquilanti V. Stereodynamic Imaging of Bromine Atomic Photofragments Eliminated from 1-Bromo-2-methylbutane Oriented via Hexapole State Selector. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:6635-6644. [PMID: 31177785 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Both single-laser and two-laser experiments were conducted to look into the ion-imaging of Br*(2P1/2) and Br(2P3/2) photofragmented from 1-bromo-2-methylbutane in the range 232-240 nm via a detection scheme of (2+1) resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization. The angular analysis of these photofragment distributions yields the anisotropy parameter β = 1.88 ± 0.06 for the Br* excited state which arises from a parallel transition, while β = 0.63 ± 0.09 for the Br ground state indicates the contribution from both a perpendicular transition and a non-adiabatic transition. When a hexapole coupled with an orienting field was implemented, the parent molecules are spatially oriented to yield an orientation efficiency |⟨cos θ⟩| of 0.15. Besides the χ angle between the recoil velocity v and the transition dipole moment μ, orienting molecules allows for the evaluation of the angle α between v and the permanent molecular dipole moment d. The angular analysis of Br* photofragment distribution yields χ = 11.5° and α in the range from 160° to 180° with weak dependency. In the two-laser experiments, the angular anisotropy of Br photofragment distribution was found to be smaller (0.38 ± 0.10) when the photolysis wavelength was red-shifted to 240 nm, suggesting the increasing contributions from perpendicular transitions.
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- Masaaki Nakamura
- Department of Chemistry , National Taiwan University , Taipei 10617 , Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry , National Taiwan University , Taipei 10617 , Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry , National Taiwan University , Taipei 10617 , Taiwan.,Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences , Academia Sinica , Taipei 10617 , Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry , National Taiwan University , Taipei 10617 , Taiwan.,Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research , Osaka University , Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science , Osaka University , Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 , Japan
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie , Università di Perugia , 06123 Perugia , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie , Università di Perugia , 06123 Perugia , Italy.,Istituto di Struttura della Materia , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , 00016 Rome , Italy
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Nucleophilic substitution vs elimination reaction of bisulfide ions with substituted methanes: exploration of chiral selectivity by stereodirectional first-principles dynamics and transition state theory. J Mol Model 2019; 25:227. [PMID: 31317347 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-019-4126-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/07/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Control of molecular orientation is emerging as crucial for the characterization of the stereodynamics of kinetics processes beyond structural stereochemistry. The special role played in chiral discrimination phenomena has been particularly emphasized by Aquilanti and collaborators after their extensive probes of experimental control of molecular alignment and orientation. In this work, the manifestation of the Aquilanti mechanism has been demonstrated for the first time in first-principles molecular dynamics simulations: stationary points characterized on potential energy surfaces have been calculated for the study of chemical reactions occurring between the bisulfide anion HS- and oriented prototypical chiral molecules CHFXY (where X = CH3 or CN and Y = Cl or I). The important reaction channels are those corresponding to bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (SN2) and to bimolecular elimination (E2): their relative role has been assessed and alternative pathways due to the mirror forms of the oriented chiral molecule are revealed by the different reactivity of the two enantiomers of CHFCNI in SN2 reaction.
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Nakamura M, Palazzetti F, Tsai PY, Yang SJ, Lin KC, Kasai T, Che DC, Lombardi A, Aquilanti V. Vectorial imaging of the photodissociation of 2-bromobutane oriented via hexapolar state selection. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:14164-14172. [PMID: 30350830 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04270e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Molecular orientation techniques are becoming available in the study of elementary chemical processes, in order to highlight those structural and dynamical properties that would be concealed by random rotational motions. Recently successful orientation was achieved for asymmetric-top and chiral molecules of much larger complexity than hitherto. In this work, we report and discuss the correlation between the vectors' photofragment recoil velocity v, transition dipole moment μ, and permanent dipole moment d in a dissociation experiment on hexapole oriented 2-bromobutane, photoinitiated by a linearly polarized laser. The sliced ion images of the Br*(2P1/2) and Br(2P3/2) photofragments were acquired at 234.0 and 254.1 nm, respectively, by a (2 + 1) resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization technique. A detailed analysis of the sliced ion images obtained at a tilting angle 45° of laser polarization provides information on the correlation of the three vectors, which are confined by two polar angles α and χ and one azimuthal angle φμd in the recoil frame. The sliced ion images of Br fragments eliminated individually from the enantiomers at 254.1 nm yield an asymmetric factor close to zero; for this reason the photofragment angular distributions do not show significant differences. The elimination of the Br* fragment at 234.0 nm is mainly correlated with a parallel transition, giving rise to a large anisotropy parameter of 1.85, and thus can be considered as a single state excitation. The resulting recoil frame angles are optimized to 163° ± 8° and 164° ± 1° for α and χ, respectively, whereas φμd is approaching 0° for the best fit. Since for the present molecule, the three vectors have an only slight spatial arrangement, the photofragment angular distributions of the two enantiomers do not show appreciable differences. Theoretical and computational simulations provide us the basis to state that oriented enantiomers can be discriminated on-the-fly in photodissociation processes even initiated by non-circularly polarized light, provided that the three vectors encountered above have specific three-dimensional arrangements. The fact that Br fragment elimination involves a multi-potential dissociation carries uncertainties in theoretical estimates of the vector direction. Therefore, this work represents a preliminary but significant step on the road to chiral discrimination on-the-fly, which is shown to be best propitiated in molecules where vectors are far from having degenerate mutual angular directions.
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- Masaaki Nakamura
- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
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Ascenzi D, Scotoni M, Tosi P, Cappelletti D, Pirani F. Stereodynamical Effects by Anisotropic Intermolecular Forces. Front Chem 2019; 7:390. [PMID: 31214573 PMCID: PMC6554618 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Electric and magnetic field gradients, arising from sufficiently strong anisotropic intermolecular forces, tend to induce molecular polarization which can often modify substantially the results of molecular collisions, especially at low rotational temperatures and low collision energies. The knowledge of these phenomena, today still not fully understood, is of general relevance for the control of the stereo-dynamics of elementary chemical-physical processes, involving neutral and ionic species under a variety of conditions. This paper reports on results obtained by combining information from scattering, spectroscopic and reactivity experiments, within a collaboration between the research groups in Perugia and Trento. We addressed particular attention to the reactions of small atomic ions with polar neutrals for their relevance in several environments, including interstellar medium, planetary atmospheres, and laboratory plasmas. In the case of ion-molecule reactions, alignment/orientation is a general phenomenon due to the electric field generated by the charged particle. Such phenomenon originates critical stereo-dynamic effects that can either suppress (when the orientation drives the collision complex into non-reactive or less reactive configurations), or enhance the reactivity (when orientation confines reagents in the most appropriate configuration for reaction). The associated rate coefficients show the propensity to follow an Arrhenius and a non-Arrhenius behavior, respectively.
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Só YADO, Neto PHDO, de Macedo LGM, Gargano R. Theoretical Investigation on H 2O 2-Ng (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, and Rn) Complexes Suitable for Stereodynamics: Interactions and Thermal Chiral Rate Consequences. Front Chem 2019; 6:671. [PMID: 30713840 PMCID: PMC6345723 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 12/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Although molecular collisions of noble gases (Ng) can be theoretically used to distinguish between the enantiomers of hydrogen peroxide - H2O2 (HP), little is known about the effects of HP-Ng interactions on the chiral rate. In this work, the chiral rate as a function of temperature (CRT) between enantiomeric conformations of HP and Ng (Ng=He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, and Rn) are presented at MP2(full)/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory through a fully basis set superposition error (BSSE) corrected potential energy surface. The results show that: (a) the CRT is highly affected even at a small decrease in the height of trans-barrier; (b) its smallest values occur with Ne for all temperatures between 100 and 4,000 K; (c) that the decrease of CRT shows an inverse correlation with respect to the average valence electron energy of the Ng and (d) Ne and He may be the noble gases more suitable for study the oriented collision dynamics of HP. In addition to binding energies, the electron density ρ and its Laplacian ∇2ρ topological analyses were also performed within the atoms in molecules (AIM) theory in order to determine the nature of the HP-Ng interactions. The results of this work provide a more complete foundation on experiments to study HP's chirality using Ng in crossed molecular beams without a light source.
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- Institute of Physics, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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Falcinelli S, Vecchiocattivi F, Pirani F. Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Effects in the Transition States of State to State Autoionization Processes. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:163403. [PMID: 30387669 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.163403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The energy distribution of electrons, emitted from collisions between Ne^{*}(^{3}P_{2,0}) and Kr(^{1}S_{0}), have been measured under high resolution conditions in a crossed molecular beam apparatus containing a hemispherical electron analyzer as detector. The experimental results provide new insights on the electronic adiabatic and nonadiabatic effects in the stereodynamics of state to state atomic and molecular collisions, controlling relevant properties of the transition state of autoionization processes. In particular, while the adiabatic effects determine sequence, energy, and symmetry of quantum states accessible both to reagents and products, the nonadiabatic effects trigger the passage from entrance to exit channels.
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- Stefano Falcinelli
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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Falcinelli S, Vecchiocattivi F, Alagia M, Schio L, Richter R, Stranges S, Catone D, Arruda MS, Mendes LAV, Palazzetti F, Aquilanti V, Pirani F. Double photoionization of propylene oxide: A coincidence study of the ejection of a pair of valence-shell electrons. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:114302. [PMID: 29566526 DOI: 10.1063/1.5024408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Propylene oxide, a favorite target of experimental and theoretical studies of circular dichroism, was recently discovered in interstellar space, further amplifying the attention to its role in the current debate on protobiological homochirality. In the present work, a photoelectron-photoion-photoion coincidence technique, using an ion-imaging detector and tunable synchrotron radiation in the 18.0-37.0 eV energy range, permits us (i) to observe six double ionization fragmentation channels, their relative yields being accounted for about two-thirds by the couple (C2H4+, CH2O+) and one-fifth by (C2H3+, CH3O+); (ii) to measure thresholds for their openings as a function of photon energy; and (iii) to unravel a pronounced bimodality for a kinetic-energy-released distribution, fingerprint of competitive non-adiabatic mechanisms.
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- Stefano Falcinelli
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy
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- IOM-CNR Tasc, Km 163.5, Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- IOM-CNR Tasc, Km 163.5, Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- IOM-CNR Tasc, Km 163.5, Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Istituto di Struttura della Materia (CNR-ISM), Area della Ricerca di Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100-00133 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Instituto de Fìsica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitario de Ondina, 40210-340 Salvador, BA, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Istituto di Struttura della Materia (CNR-ISM), Area della Ricerca di Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100-00133 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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Lombardi A, Palazzetti F. Chirality in molecular collision dynamics. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2018; 30:063003. [PMID: 29350184 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aaa1c8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Chirality is a phenomenon that permeates the natural world, with implications for atomic and molecular physics, for fundamental forces and for the mechanisms at the origin of the early evolution of life and biomolecular homochirality. The manifestations of chirality in chemistry and biochemistry are numerous, the striking ones being chiral recognition and asymmetric synthesis with important applications in molecular sciences and in industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry. Chiral discrimination phenomena, due to the existence of two enantiomeric forms, very well known in the case of interaction with light, but still nearly disregarded in molecular collision studies. Here we review some ideas and recent advances about the role of chirality in molecular collisions, designing and illustrating molecular beam experiments for the demonstration of chiral effects and suggesting a scenario for a stereo-directional origin of chiral selection.
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- Andrea Lombardi
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy. Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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Nakamura M, Yang SJ, Tsai PY, Kasai T, Lin KC, Che DC, Lombardi A, Palazzetti F, Aquilanti V. Hexapole-Oriented Asymmetric-Top Molecules and Their Stereodirectional Photodissociation Dynamics. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:5389-98. [PMID: 27139246 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b02410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Molecular orientation is a fundamental requisite in the study of stereodirected dynamics of collisional and photoinitiated processes. In this past decade, variable hexapolar electric filters have been developed and employed for the rotational-state selection and the alignment of molecules of increasing complexity, for which the main difficulties are their mass, their low symmetry, and the very dense rotational manifold. In this work, for the first time, a complex molecule such as 2-bromobutane, an asymmetric top containing a heavy atom (the bromine), was successfully oriented by a weak homogeneous field placed downstream from the hexapolar filter. Efficiency of the orientation was characterized experimentally, by combining time-of-flight measurements and a slice-ion-imaging detection technique. The application is described to the photodissociation dynamics of the oriented 2-bromobutane, which was carried out at a laser wavelength of 234 nm, corresponding to the breaking of the C-Br bond. The Br photofragment is produced in both the ground Br ((2)P3/2) and the excited Br ((2)P1/2) electronic states, and both channels are studied by the slice imaging technique, revealing new features in the velocity and angular distributions with respect to previous investigations on nonoriented molecules.
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- Masaaki Nakamura
- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University , Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University , Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University , Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Chemistry, National Chung-Hsing University , Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University , Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University , Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica , Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate School of Science, Department of Chemistry, Osaka University , Osaka, Japan
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia , Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia , Perugia, Italy.,Scuola Normale Superiore , Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia , Perugia, Italy.,Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Struttura della Materia , 00016 Roma, Italy.,Insituto de Fìsica, Universidade Federal da Bahia , Salvador, Brazil
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Falcinelli S, Bartocci A, Cavalli S, Pirani F, Vecchiocattivi F. The stereo-dynamics of collisional autoionization of ammonia by helium and neon metastable excited atoms through molecular beam experiments. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:164306. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4933429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Stefano Falcinelli
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Via Elce di sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Via Elce di sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Via Elce di sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy
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He L, Bulthuis J, Luo S, Wang J, Lu C, Stolte S, Ding D, Roeterdink WG. Laser induced alignment of state-selected CH3I. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:24121-8. [PMID: 26314900 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp02997j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Hexapole state selection is used to prepare CH3I molecules in the |JKM〉 = |1±1∓1〉 state. The molecules are aligned in a strong 800 nm laser field, which is linearly polarised perpendicular to the weak static extraction field E of the time of flight setup. The molecules are subsequently ionised by a second time delayed probe laser pulse. It will be shown that in this geometry at high enough laser intensities the Newton sphere has sufficient symmetry to apply the inverse Abel transformation to reconstruct the three dimensional distribution from the projected ion image. The laser induced controllable alignment was found to have the upper and lower extreme values of 〈P2(cos θ)〉 = 0.7 for the aligned molecule and -0.1 for the anti-aligned molecule, coupled to 〈P4(cos θ)〉 between 0.3 and 0.0. The method to extract the alignment parameters 〈P2(cos θ)〉 and 〈P4(cos θ)〉 directly from the velocity map ion images will be discussed.
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- Lanhai He
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P. R. China.
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Pei L, Farrar JM. Ion-molecule reaction dynamics: Velocity map imaging studies of N(+) and O(+) with CD3OD. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:084304. [PMID: 26328840 DOI: 10.1063/1.4929389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present a study of the charge transfer reactions of the atomic ions N(+)and O(+) with methanol in the collision energy range from ∼2 to 4 eV. Charge transfer is driven primarily by energy resonance, although the widths of the product kinetic energy distributions suggest that significant interchange between relative translation and product vibration occurs. Charge transfer with CD3OD is more exoergic for N(+), and the nascent parent ion products appear to be formed in excited B̃ and C̃ electronic states, and fragment to CD2OD(+) by internal conversion and vibrational relaxation to the ground electronic state. The internal excitation imparted to the parent ion is sufficient to result in loss of one or two D atoms from the carbon atom. The less exoergic charge transfer reaction of O(+) forms nascent parent ions in the excited à state, and internal conversion to the ground state only results in ejection of single D atom. Selected isotopomers of methanol were employed to identify reaction products, demonstrating that deuterium atom loss from nascent parent ions occurs by C-D bond cleavage. Comparison of the kinetic energy distributions for charge transfer to form CD3OD(+) and CD2OD(+) by D atom loss with the known dynamics for hydride abstraction from a carbon atom provides strong evidence that the D loss products are formed by dissociative charge transfer rather than hydride (deuteride) transfer. Isotopic labeling also demonstrates that chemical reaction in the N(+) + CD3OD system to form NO(+) + CD4 does not occur in the energy range of these experiments, contrary to earlier speculation in the literature.
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- Linsen Pei
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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Sticking Probability and Reactivity of Hyperthermal O2 Molecules Impinging on CO Pre-covered Pd(100): Effect of Rotational States with K > 1. Top Catal 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s11244-015-0408-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Palazzetti F, Maciel GS, Kanda K, Nakamura M, Che DC, Kasai T, Aquilanti V. Control of conformers combining cooling by supersonic expansion of seeded molecular beams with hexapole selection and alignment: experiment and theory on 2-butanol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:9866-75. [PMID: 24413635 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54475c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Selection and alignment of rotamers and, more in general, of conformers in the gas phase is a challenge that we tackle experimentally by supersonic expansion of seeded molecular beams and hexapolar electrostatic fields with quadrupole mass detection. The studied system involves the nine conformers of the asymmetric-top molecule 2-butanol, which coexist because of nearly free rotations around a CC and a CO bond. From the measured time-of-flight of a 2-butanol supersonic molecular beam seeded in either He or Ar, the corresponding velocity distributions are obtained. The different nature and masses of the seeding gas decrease selectively the vibrational temperature and determine the population of the conformers, which is assessed on the basis of their statistical distribution, derived from high level accompanying quantum mechanical calculations. The use of a hexapolar electrostatic field permits us to induce a variation of the population distribution as a function of the applied voltage and of the selective focusing and alignment of the conformers. A technique, recently developed for treating asymmetric tops and involving extensive trajectory simulations, is applied to obtain the link between the focusing curves, i.e. the dependence of the beam intensity on the hexapole voltage, and the conformers' populations and alignment. Perspectives are provided for photo- and stereo-dynamics experiments, particularly appealing also on account that 2-butanol is the simplest chiral alcohol.
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Brunetti BG, Candori P, Falcinelli S, Pirani F, Vecchiocattivi F. The stereodynamics of the Penning ionization of water by metastable neon atoms. J Chem Phys 2014; 139:164305. [PMID: 24182027 DOI: 10.1063/1.4826101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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The stereodynamics of the Penning ionization of water molecules by collision with metastable neon atoms, occurring in the thermal energy range, is of great relevance for the understanding of fundamental aspects of the physical chemistry of water. This process has been studied by analyzing the energy spectrum of the emitted electrons previously obtained in our laboratory in a crossed beam experiment [B. G. Brunetti, P. Candori, D. Cappelletti, S. Falcinelli, F. Pirani, D. Stranges, and F. Vecchiocattivi, Chem. Phys. Lett. 539-540, 19 (2012)]. For the spectrum analysis, a novel semiclassical method is proposed, that assumes ionization events as mostly occurring in the vicinities of the collision turning points. The potential energy driving the system in the relevant configurations of the entrance and exit channels, used in the spectrum simulation, has been formulated by the use of a semiempirical method. The analysis puts clearly in evidence how different approaches of the metastable atom to the water molecule lead to ions in different electronic states. In particular, it provides the angular acceptance cones where the selectivity of the process leading to the specific formation of each one of the two energetically possible ionic product states of H2O(+) emerges. It is shown how the ground state ion is formed when neon metastable atoms approach water mainly perpendicularly to the molecular plane, while the first excited electronic state is formed when the approach occurs preferentially along the C2v axis, on the oxygen side. An explanation is proposed for the observed vibrational excitation of the product ions.
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Krupp AT, Gaj A, Balewski JB, Ilzhöfer P, Hofferberth S, Löw R, Pfau T, Kurz M, Schmelcher P. Alignment of D-state Rydberg molecules. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:143008. [PMID: 24765956 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.143008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We report on the formation of ultralong-range Rydberg D-state molecules via photoassociation in an ultracold cloud of rubidium atoms. By applying a magnetic offset field on the order of 10 G and high resolution spectroscopy, we are able to resolve individual rovibrational molecular states. A full theory, using a Fermi pseudopotential approach including s- and p-wave scattering terms, reproduces the measured binding energies. The calculated molecular wave functions show that in the experiment we can selectively excite stationary molecular states with an extraordinary degree of alignment or antialignment with respect to the magnetic field axis.
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- A T Krupp
- 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany and The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany and The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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Kasai T, Che DC, Okada M, Tsai PY, Lin KC, Palazzetti F, Aquilanti V. Directions of chemical change: experimental characterization of the stereodynamics of photodissociation and reactive processes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:9776-90. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00464g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Dahiya B, Tyagi A, Prasad V. Dynamics of orientation of adsorbed polar molecules in static electric and laser field. Mol Phys 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2013.856487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Brijender Dahiya
- Department of Physics, Swami Shraddhanand College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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- Department of Physics, Swami Shraddhanand College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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- Department of Physics, Swami Shraddhanand College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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Aligned molecules: chirality discrimination in photodissociation and in molecular dynamics. RENDICONTI LINCEI-SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s12210-013-0248-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Krasilnikov MB, Popov RS, Roncero O, De Fazio D, Cavalli S, Aquilanti V, Vasyutinskii OS. Polarization of molecular angular momentum in the chemical reactions Li + HF and F + HD. J Chem Phys 2013; 138:244302. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4809992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Production of ions at high energy and its role in extraterrestrial environments. RENDICONTI LINCEI-SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s12210-012-0215-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Brunetti B, Candori P, Cappelletti D, Falcinelli S, Pirani F, Stranges D, Vecchiocattivi F. Penning ionization electron spectroscopy of water molecules by metastable neon atoms. Chem Phys Lett 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2012.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Electrostatic hexapole state-selection of the asymmetric-top molecule propylene oxide: Rotational and orientational distributions. Chem Phys 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2011.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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YANG HERUN, LIU ZUOYE, SUN SHAOHUA, LI LU, DU HONGCHUAN, HU BITAO. QUASI-CLASSICAL STUDY OF STEREO-DYNAMICS FOR THE REACTION C + CH → C2 + H ON THE 12A′ POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE. JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL & COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY 2012. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219633611006323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) method and the 12A′ potential energy surface (PES) [Boggio-Pasqua et al., Phys Chem Chem Phys2:1693, 2000] have been employed to study the stereo-dynamics of the reaction C + CH (v = 0, j) → C2 + H at different collision energies over the range of 0.01–0.6 eV and for different rotational quantum number j = 0 - 3. The reactive total cross section with initial revibrational state of v = 0 and j = 0 as a function of collision energy is presented and compared with the quantum mechanics results. The forward-backward asymmetry phenomenon has been found in the angular distribution of the products. The calculated distribution of P(θr) indicates a strong product alignment perpendicular to k, but this kind of product alignment is found to be rather insensitive to the collision energy. The calculated distribution of P(ϕr) revealed that at low collision energy the products tend to be oriented along the negative direction of the y-axis, while at high collision energy, this product orientation tends to be pointed to the positive direction of the y-axis. Such product orientation tends generally to become stronger with the increase of collision energy. Further, product polarization (i.e. orientation and alignment) becomes weak with high rotational excitation of the reagent CH molecule.
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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Kasai T, Che DC, Tsai PY, Lin KC. Reaction Dynamics with Molecular Beams and Oriented Molecular Beams: A Tool for Looking Closer to Chemical Reactions and Photodissociations. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.201100735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Zhao D, Chu T, Hao C. Vector correlations in the F + HO → HF + O reaction and its isotopic variant. J Mol Model 2012; 18:3283-9. [PMID: 22252836 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-012-1351-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2011] [Accepted: 01/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The F + H(D)O → HF(DF) + O reactions have been studied using quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) calculation method, based on the three different potential energy surfaces (PESs) of Gomez-Carrasco et al. (J Chem Phys 2004, 121:4605; J Chem Phys 2005, 123:114310; Chem Phys Lett 2007, 435:188). Facilitated with the analysis of the QCT results, the pictures for product scattering and product polarizations have been presented to investigate the vector correlations in the two reactions, with effects of isotope substitution and electronic state as well as collision energy being revealed at a chemical stereodynamical level.
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- Dan Zhao
- School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China
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Ge MH, Zheng YJ. Effect of ro-vibrational excitation of HCl on the stereodynamics for the reaction of O(3P)+HCl→OH+Cl. Chem Phys 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2011.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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LIU ZUOYE, HU BITAO. THEORETICAL STUDY OF STEREO-DYNAMICS FOR THE REACTION C(3P) + CH(2II) → C2 + H ON THE THREE LOWEST POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES. JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL & COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY 2011. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219633610006213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Based on the global three-dimensional adiabatic potential surfaces (PESs) 12 A ′, 22 A ′, 12 A ″ [Boggio-Pasqua et al., Phys Chem Chem Phys2:1693, 2000], the stereo-dynamics of the reaction C + CH → C 2 + H has been investigated by using the quasi-classical trajectories (QCT) method. The four polarization-dependent differential cross sections (PDDCSs) and the angular distributions of P(θr), P(ϕr), P(θr, ϕr) have been calculated at the collision energy 0.1 eV on the three PESs, respectively. The calculated results indicate that the distribution of the product C2 is backward-forward scattering on the 12 A ′ and 12 A ″ PESs and backward scattering on the 22 A ′ PES. The product rotational angular momentum is strongly aligned along the perpendicular direction to the reagent relative velocity k on the three PESs. The orientation of the product C 2 rotational angular momentum tends to point to the positive direction of the y-axis on the 12 A ′ PES but the negative direction on the 22 A ′ and 12 A ″ PESs.
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- ZUOYE LIU
- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, P. R. China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, P. R. China
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A quasiclassical trajectory analysis of stereodynamics of the H + FCl (v = 0 – 3, j = 0 – 3) → HCl + F reaction. J CHEM SCI 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-011-0063-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Omiste JJ, González-Férez R, Schmelcher P. Rotational spectrum of asymmetric top molecules in combined static and laser fields. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:064310. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3624774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Aligned molecular collisions and a stereodynamical mechanism for selective chirality. RENDICONTI LINCEI-SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s12210-011-0123-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Omiste JJ, Gärttner M, Schmelcher P, González-Férez R, Holmegaard L, Nielsen JH, Stapelfeldt H, Küpper J. Theoretical description of adiabatic laser alignment and mixed-field orientation: the need for a non-adiabatic model. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:18815-24. [DOI: 10.1039/c1cp21195a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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- J J Omiste
- Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y Computacional and Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Dave Townsend
- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom, and Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada
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- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom, and Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada
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- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom, and Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada
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Peng Y. Quasiclassical Trajectory Calculations of the Isotope Effect: Chemical Stereodynamics for the H(D) + FCl ( v= 0–3, j= 0–3) → HCl(DCl) + F Reactions. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2010. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20100022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Han B, Zong F, Wang C, Ma W, Zhou J. Product polarization on the 3A″ electronic state in the H+FO reaction and its isotope variant. Chem Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2010.06.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Che DC, Palazzetti F, Okuno Y, Aquilanti V, Kasai T. Electrostatic hexapole state-selection of the asymmetric-top molecule propylene oxide. J Phys Chem A 2010; 114:3280-6. [PMID: 20099859 DOI: 10.1021/jp909553t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Rotational state-selection of the asymmetric-top molecule propylene oxide was carried out using an electrostatic hexapole field of 85-cm length. Molecular beam intensities were monitored by a quadrupole mass spectrometer. It was found that beam intensities of molecular beams for pure propylene oxide and those seeded in He and in Ar increased with increasing hexapole voltages. The hexapole voltage dependence of the beam intensity, which is called the focusing curve, was interpreted by computer simulation of the trajectories of molecules in the hexapolar field due to the Stark effect, as a function of rotational temperatures of molecular beams. The calculated best fit focusing curves, when compared with the experimental results, demonstrated that the rotational temperatures, associated with the distribution of states of a given rotational angular momentum J, are similar to the translational temperatures. It was found that the M = 0 states (where M is the projection of J along the direction of the electrostatic field) and negative values of the pseudoquantum number tau of propylene oxide can be selected using our experimental setup. These results suggest that the hexapole electric field is a tool even for the selection of rotational and orientation states of asymmetric-top molecules.
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- Dock-Chil Che
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.
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