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Formation of long-lived fluorofullerene trianions in collisions with Na
Olga V Boltalina1, Alexey V Streletskii, Ilya N Ioffe
1Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia. ovbolt@lamar.colostate.edu
Abstract:
The first experimental observation of long-lived triply charged fluorofullerene anions in the gas phase obtained from C60F48 is reported. The existence of a Coloumb barrier trapping the third electron in the trianion is supposed to be responsible for detection of the species which is estimated to have negative third electron affinity.
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