M. Castillejo et al., SUBPICOSECOND IONIZATION AND DISSOCIATION OF BENZENE AND CYCLIC ALKANES AT 800 AND 400 NM, Chemical physics letters, 289(3-4), 1998, pp. 303-310
The photoionization and dissociation processes induced by 200 fs laser
pulses of 800 and 400 nm in benzene and the cyclic alkanes cyclopropa
ne and cyclohexane have been studied by time-of-flight mass spectromet
ry. At 800 nm and intensities up to 2.1 x 10(13) W cm(-2) benzene and
cyclopropane parent ions are dominant in the mass spectra whereas cycl
ohexane appears completely fragmented. At 400 nm and intensities up to
4.4 x 10(12) W cm(-2) a more extensive fragmentation is observed for
all three molecules. The molecular ionization is attributed to a reson
ant multiphoton process and the observed fragmentation to a predominan
t ID (ionization followed by dissociation) ladder climbing mechanism.
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