Laser Photodissociation Spectroscopy of Mass - selected Metal Clusters
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Electronic spectra are reported for the metal cluster (Tef) and metal cluster complex (Ag+-benzene, Mg'-C02) cations. These ions are generated by laser vaporization in a pulsed nozzle source, jet-cooled, mass-selected with a reflectron time-of-flight spectrometer, and dissociated on resonance with a tunable dye laser. Electronic excitation spectra are recorded by monitoring the appearance of the fragment-ion channel(s) as the dissociation laser is tuned through electronic and/or vibronic resonances. Analysis of these new spectra yields vibrational constants, binding energetics and evidence for new photochemistry in these novel ion systems.
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