A. Marijnissen et al., FIRST IONIZATION-POTENTIAL OF PLATINUM BY MASS-SELECTED DOUBLE-RESONANCE FIELD-IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY, Physical review. A, 52(4), 1995, pp. 2606-2610
Mass-selected, double-resonance, field-ionization spectroscopy is used
to determine the first ionization potential of the three abundant iso
topes of platinum. By fitting up to 38 member of s and s Rydberg serie
s of ionization potentials of Pt-194, Pt-195, and Pt-196 are determine
d to be 72 256.6+/-0.9 cm(-1) (8.958 68+/-0.000 11 eV). This yields a
revised value of 27 580+/-320 cm(-1) (3.42+/-0.04 eV) for the bond str
ength of platinum dimercation Pt-2(+).