CH2+ IS BENT

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作者
GRABER, T
KANTER, EP
VAGER, Z
ZAJFMAN, D
机构
[1] WEIZMANN INST SCI, DEPT NUCL PHYS, IL-76100 REHOVOT, ISRAEL
[2] UNIV ILLINOIS, DEPT PHYS, CHICAGO, IL 60680 USA
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10.1063/1.465090
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI) technique has been applied to a beam of vibrationally cold CH2+ molecular ions and the distribution of bond angles was extracted. From these data, we are able to demonstrate conclusively that the electronic ground state potential of this molecule has a C2v minimum and that the zero-point energy lies below the potential barrier to linearity.
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页码:7725 / 7729
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