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Photoelectron Imaging of Anions Illustrated by 310 Nm Detachment of F−
Published on: July 27, 2018
Electron impact ionization of furanose alcohols
A R Milosavljević1, J Kocisek, P Papp
1Laboratory for Atomic Collision Processes, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Pregrevica118, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia. vraz@ipb.ac.rs
Abstract:
Electron impact ionization of the gas phase 3-furanol, tetrahydro (3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran, 3HTHF) and 2-furanmethanol, tetrahydro (alpha-tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol, THFA) molecules has been studied both experimentally and theoretically. The electron induced positive ion formation has been investigated experimentally using a crossed electron/neutral beams technique in combination with a quadrupole mass spectrometry. The mass spectra of both molecules have been determined at the incident electron energy of 70 eV. The ionization efficiency curves for each parent cation and a number of fragment cations have been measured near the threshold, and the corresponding appearance energies have been derived using an iterative fitting procedure based on the Wannier threshold law, taking into account the incident electron energy resolution. The appearance energies of the parent cations were experimentally determined to be (9.620+/-0.058) eV for (C(4)H(8)O(2)(+)/3HTHF) and (9.43+/-0.12) eV for (C(5)H(10)O(2)(+)/THFA), which are in a good agreement with G3MP2 calculated results: 9.480 and 9.419 eV, respectively. The most abundant cations in the mass spectra were determined to be 57 amu for 3HTHF and 71 amu for THFA, with the corresponding experimentally determined appearance energies of (10.22+/-0.10) eV and (9.574+/-0.062) eV, respectively. With the help of the energies calculated at B3LYP and G3MP2 levels of theory, the possible fragmentation patterns were discussed.
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