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    Photoelectron Imaging and Photofragmentation of Molecular and Cluster Anions

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    Author
    Khuseynov, Dmitry
    Issue Date
    2014
    Keywords
    carbenes
    photoelectron imaging
    photofragmentation
    radicals
    spectroscopy
    Chemistry
    angular distribution
    Advisor
    Sanov, Andrei
    
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    The electronic structure and photofragmentation dynamics of several molecular and cluster anions have been investigated in the gas phase via negative ion velocity-map imaging photoelectron spectrometer combined with tandem time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry. Among others, photoelectron imaging investigation of the halogen- and cyano- substituted methyl radicals and corresponding carbenes has been performed on several mono- and hetero- substituted species – dicyanomethyl and chlorocyanomethyl radicals, ·CH(CN)₂ and ·CHClCN, and corresponding carbenes, NCCCN and CClCN. The results are discussed in comparison with the corresponding dichloro- species, focusing on the divergent effects of the halogen and pseudohalogen (CN) substitutions. A cooperative (captodative) interaction of π-donor Cl and π-acceptor cyano groups favors the increased stability of the CHClCN radical, but a competition of the two substituents is observed in the singlet-triplet splitting of the carbene. The experimental results are consistent with high level ab-initio calculations using the spin-flip approach in combination with the coupled-cluster theory. The C-H bond dissociation energies were determined for several substituted methanes and discussed. Additionally, a practical model is presented for describing the energy dependence of laboratory-frame photoelectron angular distributions in direct photodetachment from (in principle) any molecular orbital using linearly polarized light. A transparent mathematical approach is used to generalize the Cooper-Zare central-potential model to initial states of any mixed character. In the limits of atomic photodetachment or photoionization, the model reproduces the Cooper-Zare formula. In the case of electron emission from an orbital described as a superposition of s- and p-type functions, the model yields the previously obtained s-p mixing formula. The formalism is further advanced using the Hanstorp approximation, valid for anion photodetachment only, whereas the relative scaling of the partial wave cross-sections is assumed to follow the Wigner threshold law. The resulting model can be used to describe the energy dependence of photoelectron anisotropy for any atomic, molecular, or cluster anions. As a benchmark case, we compare the predictions of the p-d variant of the model to the experimental results for NO⁻ photodetachment and show that the observed anisotropy trend is described well using physically meaningful values of the model parameters.
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    Ph.D.
    Degree Level
    doctoral
    Degree Program
    Graduate College
    Chemistry
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    University of Arizona
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