Abstract
Metal-organic radicals are reactive and transient because of the existence of unpaired valence electrons, and thus the characterization of these open-shell systems is challenging. In our work, the radicals are synthesized by the reaction of bare metal atoms and organic ligands in a laser-vaporization supersonic molecular beam source and characterized with pulsed-field ionization zero electron kinetic energy (ZEKE) spectroscopy. The molecular beam ZEKE technique routinely yields sub-meV spectral resolution and is a powerful means to study the molecular bonding and structures. This account presents several examples of single-photon ZEKE spectroscopic applications in determining metal binding modes and molecular conformations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1831-1840 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Science China Chemistry |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author wishes to thank his students, postdocs, and collaborators whose names appear on the papers quoted herein. The author is grateful for the financial support from the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation, donors of the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society, and Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation. REFERNCES
Keywords
- ZEKE
- metal-organic radicals
- molecular conformation
- photoelectron
- pulsed field ionization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry