TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental evidence for the metastability of neon hydride
AU - Selgren, Susan F.
AU - Gellene, Gregory I.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement is made to the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society (Grant 16836-G6), the Research Corporation, the Notre Dame Jesse H. Jones Research Fund, and the Finnigan MAT Corporation for partial support of this research.
PY - 1987/11/27
Y1 - 1987/11/27
N2 - The neutralization-reionization mass spectrum of NeD+ has been obtained using K as a neutralization target and NO2 as a collisional reionization target. The appearance of the parent NeD+ peak in the mass spectrum unambiguously indicates that the neutral radical survived the transit time (≈ 0.5 μs) from the point of neutralization to that of reionization. Arguments, based on energetic considerations, are presented that the observed metastability arises from the existence of a shallow well and dissociation barrier in the ground state of the radical analogous to those which have previously been determined for the ground states of the isoelectronic NH4, H3O, and H2F radicals.
AB - The neutralization-reionization mass spectrum of NeD+ has been obtained using K as a neutralization target and NO2 as a collisional reionization target. The appearance of the parent NeD+ peak in the mass spectrum unambiguously indicates that the neutral radical survived the transit time (≈ 0.5 μs) from the point of neutralization to that of reionization. Arguments, based on energetic considerations, are presented that the observed metastability arises from the existence of a shallow well and dissociation barrier in the ground state of the radical analogous to those which have previously been determined for the ground states of the isoelectronic NH4, H3O, and H2F radicals.
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U2 - 10.1016/0009-2614(87)85070-4
DO - 10.1016/0009-2614(87)85070-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:45949116328
SN - 0009-2614
VL - 141
SP - 508
EP - 510
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
IS - 6
ER -