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Measurement of Ultrafast Vibrational Coherences in Polyatomic Radical Cations with Strong-Field Adiabatic Ionization
Published on: August 6, 2018
Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionisation of purine
Michael Schneider1, Tilman Hain, Ingo Fischer
1Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.
Abstract:
State-of-the-art molecular-beam techniques reveal that the lowest lying electronic excited state in purine is the n pi* state. Using multiphoton ionization spectroscopy, the origin is found to occur at 31,309 cm(-1), and a vibrational structure is visible that is assigned to the skeletal motion of the ring (see figure).
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