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MO: Molekülphysik
MO 8: Posters Thursday: Dissociation and other Collision Processes
MO 8.12: Poster
Thursday, April 5, 2001, 12:30–15:00, AT3
Unimolecular fragmentation of anthracene and phenanthrene — •Adalbert Ding1, Christian Lenski1, Michael Lenski1, and Chava Lifshitz2 — 1Institute for Optics, Technical University of Berlin, Germany — 2Dept. of Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Light from the Berlin synchrotron BESSY was used to investigate the fragmentation of anthracene and phenanthrene. Both substances were ionized using photon energies between 10 eV and 30 eV and analysed in a McLaren-type time off flight mass spectrometer. At sufficiently high photon energies anthracene and phenantrene fragment dissociate splitting off H-atoms and CxHy–fragments. The critical energies for dissociating H-atoms are in good agreement with the appropriate values from electron bombardement ionisation. The fragmentation behaviour of anthracene and phenantrene and a comparison with experimantally taken break-down curves indicate a fast isomerisation process.