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Interstellar molecules. Conversion Of C(3)O(-) to C(3)O in the gas phase
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry : RCM
|November 5, 1999
Abstract:
Neutral C(3)O has been prepared by collision induced neutralisation of the precursor radical anion formed by the reaction (-)C identical withC-CO-OEt --> C(3)O(-) + EtO(). The similar neutralisation reionisation ((-)NR(+)) and charge reversal (CR) spectra of C(3)O(-) indicate that the potential surfaces of C(3)O and C(3)O(+) show favourable vertical Franck-Condon overlap. This suggests that the bond connectivities of anion, neutral and cation C(3)O are the same. Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.