Photodissociation of pyrene cations: Structure and energetics from C16H10+ to C14+ and almost everything in between

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 118, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 7824-7831

  West, Brandi ^a   Useli Bacchitta, Francesca ^b   Sabbah, Hassan ^b   Blanchet, Valérie ^c   Bodi, Andras ^d   Mayer, Paul M ^a   Joblin, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b IRAP   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACTIVATION ENERGY; COMPUTATION THEORY; DISSOCIATION; PHOTONS; POSITIVE IONS; PYRENE;

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; FRAGMENTATION PATHWAYS; PHOTOELECTRON-PHOTOION COINCIDENCE; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; RADICAL CATIONS; STRUCTURE AND ENERGETICS; UNIMOLECULAR DISSOCIATION;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84913559854     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp506420u     Document Type: Article

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