METAL AND MULTIMETAL COMPLEXES WITH POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS - FORMATION AND PHOTODISSOCIATION OF FE-X-(CORONENE)(Y) CATIONS

Authors
BUCHANAN JW REDDIC JE GRIEVES GA DUNCAN MA
Citation
Jw. Buchanan et al., METAL AND MULTIMETAL COMPLEXES WITH POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS - FORMATION AND PHOTODISSOCIATION OF FE-X-(CORONENE)(Y) CATIONS, The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory, 102(32), 1998, pp. 6390-6394
Citations number
49
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Physical
Journal title
The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory → ACNP
ISSN journal
10895639
Volume
102
Issue
32
Year of publication
1998
Pages
6390 - 6394
Database
ISI
SICI code
1089-5639(1998)102:32<6390:MAMCWP>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
Gas-phase cluster complexes containing coronene and iron are produced in a molecular beam and studied with time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Cation complexes are produced in a pulsed nozzle laser vaporization c luster source using a metal rod coated with a sublimed film of coronen e. Cluster masses of the form [Fe(x-)cor(y)](+) are observed for x 1-3 and y 1,2. Additional masses are observed for the complexes [Fe-cor(y )](+) for y = 1-7. Mass-selected laser photodissociation experiments p robe the structure and bonding in these new cluster species. Evidence is presented for stable sandwich structures and for the existence of m ulti-iron species as separated atoms on the coronene surface.