Tabletop imaging of structural evolutions in chemical reactions demonstrated for the acetylene cation

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ibrahim, Heide ^a   Wales, Benji ^b   Beaulieu, Samuel ^a   Schmidt, Bruno E ^a   Thiré, Nicolas ^a   Fowe, Emmanuel P ^c   Bisson, Éric ^a   Hebeisen, Christoph T ^d,e   Wanie, Vincent ^a   Giguére, Mathieu ^a   Kieffer, Jean Claude ^a   Spanner, Michael ^d   Bandrauk, André D ^c   Sanderson, Joseph ^b   Schuurman, Michael S ^d   Légaré, François ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; CATION; PROTON;

ACETYLENE; CATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ENERGY; IMAGING; IONIZATION; ISOMERIZATION; LASER; MOLECULE; PHOTON; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM;

EID: 84904613908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5422     Document Type: Article

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