Issue 8, 2002
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Tetracyanoethylene, its ions and ionic fragments

Alice M. Smith-Gicklhorn,a   Marcin Frankowski†a  and  Vladimir E. Bondybey‡a  

a Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Abstract

The Fourier-transform infrared spectra of tetracyanoethylene cation, C6N4+, and several of it fragment ions: CNC+, C4N2+, C3N2+, C5N3+, and C6N3+, in solid neon are obtained via mass-selective deposition. The ions are formed via electron-impact ionization of tetracyanoethylene, mass-selected in a quadrupole mass filter and deposited together with an excess of electrons to prevent a buildup of space charge. Upon irradiation of these matrices with a tungsten lamp, electrons are mobilized and attach to electron-deficient dopants; not only neutralizing the small amount of cations in the matrix, but also forming the well-known tetracyanoethylene anion, C6N4−. For each molecular ion, the new infrared assignments are supported by density functional calculations.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B110032G
Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Nov 2001
Accepted
24 Jan 2002
First published
14 Mar 2002

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2002,4, 1425-1431

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Tetracyanoethylene, its ions and ionic fragments

A. M. Smith-Gicklhorn, M. Frankowski and V. E. Bondybey, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2002, 4, 1425 DOI: 10.1039/B110032G

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