VINYLIDENE!

Field, Robert W.

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/79427 Copy

Description

Title

VINYLIDENE!

Author(s)

Field, Robert W.

Contributor(s)

• Fernando, Ravin
• Suits, Arthur
• Laws, Benjamin A.
• Gibson, Stephen

Issue Date

25-Jun-15

Keyword(s)

Atmospheric science

Abstract

In 1989 the Lineberger group observed S$_{0}$ vinylidene in the negative ion photoelectron spectrum. Excess widths were interpreted by some as indicating a sub-picosecond lifetime for vinylidene. 1998 Coulomb explosion experiments showed that vinylidene character survives for at least 3.5 $mu$s. Chirped Pulse mm-Wave spectra showed that 193 nm photolysis of Vinyl Cyanide produces many vibrational levels of HCN and HNC but no trace of vinylidene or local-bender excited acetylene. David Perry�s and Michel Herman�s effective Hamiltonian model for local-bender acetylene showed that IVR is complete at J approximately 100. Observation of long-lived vinylidene requires formation at low-J. Photodetachment of an electron from the Vinylidene negative ion deposits negligible angular momentum in the C$_{2}$H$_{2}$ moiety. The high-resolution negative-ion Photoelectron Velocity Map Imaging spectrometer at ANU reveals vinylidene with strongly vibration-dependent $beta$ asymmetry parameters. Infrared Multi-Photon Dissociation of Vinyl Chloride in the Wayne State Velocity Map Imaging spectrometer reveals rotationally and vibrationally cold HCl, presumably the 3-center photofragmentation co-product of rotationally cold vinylidene. The mechanism of vinylidene-acetylene isomerization is emerging�

Publisher

International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/79427

Owning Collections