Photoelectron imaging of NCCCN-: The triplet ground state and the singlet-triplet splitting of dicyanocarbene

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Goebbert, Daniel J ^a   Pichugin, Kostyantyn ^a   Khuseynov, Dmitry ^a   Wenthold, Paul G ^b   Sanov, Andrei ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC ELECTRON AFFINITY; ANION STRUCTURES; BEST ESTIMATES; CLOSED SHELLS; ELECTRON BINDING ENERGY; FIRST EXCITED STATE; FRANCK-CONDON; GEOMETRY CHANGE; GROUND ELECTRONIC STATE; PHOTOELECTRON IMAGING; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRUM; QUASI-LINEAR; SHARP FEATURES; SINGLET-TRIPLET SPLITTING; SPIN-FLIP COUPLED-CLUSTER METHOD; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TRIPLET BAND; TRIPLET STATE; UPPER BOUND;

BINDING ENERGY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRON AFFINITY; ELECTRONIC STATES; ELECTRONS; EXCITED STATES; IONS; ISOMERS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS;

PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77953596019     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3436717     Document Type: Article

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