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Ultraviolet photochemistry of 2-bromothiophene explored using universal ionization detection and multi-mass velocity-map imaging with a PImMS2 sensor

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06/04/2017
Author
Ingle, R. A.
Hansen, C. S.
Elsdon, E.
Bain, M.
King, S. J.
Lee, J. W. L.
Brouard, M.
Vallance, C.
Turchetta, R.
Ashfold, M. N. R.
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QD Chemistry
QC Physics
Physics and Astronomy(all)
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
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The ultraviolet photochemistry of 2-bromothiophene (C4H3SBr) has been studied across the wavelength range 265-245 nm using a velocity-map imaging (VMI) apparatus recently modified for multi-mass imaging and vacuum ultraviolet (VUV, 118.2 nm) universal ionization. At all wavelengths, molecular products arising from the loss of atomic bromine were found to exhibit recoil velocities and anisotropies consistent with those reported elsewhere for the Br fragment [J. Chem. Phys. 142, 224303 (2015)]. Comparison between the momentum distributions of the Br and C4H3S fragments suggests that bromine is formed primarily in its ground (2P3/2) spin-orbit state. These distributions match well at high momentum, but relatively fewer slow moving molecular fragments were detected. This is explained by the observation of a second substantial ionic product, C3H3+. Analysis of ion images recorded simultaneously for several ion masses and the results of high-level ab initio calculations suggest that this fragment ion arises from dissociative ionization (by the VUV probe laser) of the most internally excited C4H3S fragments. This study provides an excellent benchmark for the recently modified VMI instrumentation and offers a powerful demonstration of the emerging field of multi-mass VMI using event-triggered, high frame-rate sensors, and universal ionization.
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Ingle , R A , Hansen , C S , Elsdon , E , Bain , M , King , S J , Lee , J W L , Brouard , M , Vallance , C , Turchetta , R & Ashfold , M N R 2017 , ' Ultraviolet photochemistry of 2-bromothiophene explored using universal ionization detection and multi-mass velocity-map imaging with a PImMS2 sensor ' , Journal of Chemical Physics , vol. 147 , no. 1 , 013914 . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4979559
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Journal of Chemical Physics
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4979559
ISSN
0021-9606
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Journal article
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© 2017 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4979559]
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This project is funded by EPSRC Programme Grant No. EP/L005913/1. The raw ion events data and calculation log files can be retrieved from the University of Bristol’s research data repository and can be accessed using the following DOI:10.5523/bris.k35bi3pqsdbh2b5moo2e3puxf.
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http://aip.scitation.org/doi/suppl/10.1063/1.4979559
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10670

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