Dynamics of resonant low-energy electron attachment to ethanol-producing hydroxide anions
Here, the dynamics of dissociative electron attachment to ethanol is experimentally investigated at the Feshbach resonance formed with incident electron energies near 9.5 eV. Highly differential laboratory-frame momentum distributions of $$\mathrm{OH^–}$$ fragments are measured for a series of energies spanning the resonance width, using the velocity-map-imaging technique. The $$\mathrm{OH^–}$$ kinetic-energy distribution indicates that the C-O breaking dissociation process could either be a three-body dissociation or a two-body dissociation with significant rovibrational excited fragments. The small, but significant, anisotropy in the $$\mathrm{OH^–}$$ angular distribution provides signatures of the molecular symmetry of the associated resonant state under the axial recoil approximation, which assumes the dissociation is much faster than any rotation of the dissociation axis. Within these assumptions, the 9.5-eV Feshbach resonance can be assigned to the electronic transition from the ($10a'$) orbital with its ground-state $$C_s$$ symmetry to the empty ($4a''$) level, involving the simultaneous electron attachment. This dynamics could be a model for C-O dissociation in larger alcohols and ethers.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division (CSGB); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; FC02-04ER15533
- OSTI ID:
- 2228584
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 2204893
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review A, Vol. 108, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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