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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 143, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4927086
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- Condensed Phase and Interfacial Molecular Science (CPIMS) Program, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Brown University
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1263745] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Electrospray ionization (ESI) has become an essential tool in chemical physics and physical chemistry for the production of novel molecular ions from solution samples for a variety of spectroscopic experiments. ESI was used to produce free multiply-charged anions (MCAs) for photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) in the late 1990 s, allowing many interesting properties of this class of exotic species to be investigated. Free MCAs are characterized by strong intramolecular Coulomb repulsions, which create a repulsive Coulomb barrier (RCB) for electron emission. The RCB endows many fascinating properties to MCAs, giving rise to meta-stable anions with negative electron binding energies. Recent development in the PES of MCAs includes photoelectron imaging to examine the influence of the RCB on the electron emission dynamics, pump-probe experiments to examine electron tunneling through the RCB, and isomer-specific experiments by coupling PES with ion mobility for biological MCAs. The development of a cryogenically cooled Paul trap has led to much better resolved PE spectra for MCAs by creating vibrationally cold anions from the room temperature ESI source. Recent advances in coupling the cryogenic Paul trap with PE imaging have allowed high-resolution PE spectra to be obtained for singly charged anions produced by ESI. In particular, the observation of dipole-bound excited states has made it possible to conduct vibrational autodetachment spectroscopy and resonant PES, which yield much richer vibrational spectroscopic information for dipolar free radicals than traditional PES. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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