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Energy and orientation independence of the channel branching in Ne* + ND3 chemi-ionisation

Gordon, Sean D. S.
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Osterwalder, Andreas
January 15, 2019
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Collisions of excited neon atoms with ammonia molecules can lead to two reaction processes, dissociative ionisation and Penning ionisation. Both processes result in the ionisation of the ammonia molecule and redistribution of the electronic energy into the internal ammonia ion rovibrational modes. We performed energy dependent, crossed-beam stereodynamics studies of the branching ratio between the two ionisation processes. It was found that the branching ratio is totally and completely insensitive to both the neon orientation and the collision energy across the range we sampled, 370–520 cm􏰀1. The total lack of stereodynamics can be explained by the structure of the ammonia and that its orientation, which we do not attempt to control, is the critical factor in the reaction outcome.

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research article
DOI
10.1039/C8CP06666C
Author(s)
Gordon, Sean D. S.
Osterwalder, Andreas
Date Issued

2019-01-15

Published in
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume

21

Issue

26

Start page

14306

End page

14310

Subjects

Cold Chemistry

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Merged Beams

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Stereodynamics

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Penning Ionisation

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Ammonia

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
SCI-SB-AO  
FunderGrant Number

FNS

200021_165975

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February 18, 2019
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