Perspective: Electrospray photoelectron spectroscopy: From multiply-charged anions to ultracold anions
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 (United States)
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.
- OSTI ID:
- 22493437
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 143, Issue 4; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
ANIONS
BINDING ENERGY
CHEMICAL PHYSICS
COULOMB FIELD
COUPLING
ELECTRON EMISSION
ELECTRONS
EXCITED STATES
IONIZATION
ISOMERS
MOBILITY
MOLECULAR IONS
MULTICHARGED IONS
PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
RADICALS
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0273-0400 K
TRAPS
TUNNEL EFFECT