Electron collisions with formic acid monomer and dimer
- Allan, Michael Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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21.03.2007
Published in:
- Physical Review Letters. - 2007, vol. 98, no. 12, p. 123201
English
Processes induced by the attachment of slow electrons to formic acid and its hydrogen-bonded dimer were studied. The elastic cross section and the cross section for the excitation of low quanta of discrete vibrations were found to be of a similar magnitude for both targets. A dramatic difference was found in the excitation of a vibrational quasicontinuum in the 1–2 eV range with the ejection of very slow electrons (E<0.1 eV), which was about 20× more intense in the dimer. The association of two formic acid molecules to form a dimer thus dramatically increases the power to quasithermalize electrons arriving with energies in the 1–2 eV energy range. Rapid electron-driven intracluster proton transfer is invoked to explain the observation.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Chimie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Chemistry
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 6682
- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.123201
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300285
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