Experiment and theory elucidate the multichannel predissociation dynamics of the HCl trimer: Breaking up is hard to do

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 118, Issue 37, 2014, Pages 8402-8410

  Mancini, John S ^a   Samanta, Amit K ^b   Bowman, Joel M ^a   Reisler, Hanna ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIMERS; DISSOCIATION; EXCITED STATES; MONOMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOIONIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DIFFUSION MONTE CARLO; DISSOCIATION MECHANISMS; ENERGY RE DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDROGEN BONDED NETWORK; PRODUCT STATE DISTRIBUTIONS; RESONANCE-ENHANCED MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; VIBRATIONAL EXCITATION; VIBRATIONAL PREDISSOCIATION DYNAMICS;

HYDROGEN BONDS;

EID: 84899876570     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5015753     Document Type: Article

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