S. Carles et al., Dipole-bound anion of 1,3-butanediol. Ab initio and Rydberg electron transfer spectroscopy study, CHEM P LETT, 334(4-6), 2001, pp. 374-380
Rydberg electron transfer spectroscopy (RET) has been used to determine the
dipole-bound (DB) electron affinity (EA) of 1,3-butanediol and a single sp
ectral feature was obtained corresponding to the EA value of 8 +/- 1 meV. A
series of high-level ab initio calculations were also carried out for this
system. They revealed an interesting configuration landscape of the 1,3-bu
tanediol DB anion with four minima corresponding to different configuration
s. All four configurations can be responsible for the single RET spectral p
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