ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Thermally-induced electron detachment from collisionally stabilized C6F6 in a buffer gas of N2 has an activation energy of 0.477 eV. This value agreed well with the electron affinity (0.52 eV) reported by Chowdhury et al. and Knighton et al. However, it is lower than the value of 0.86 eV for the electron affinity of C6F6 reported by some authors. Based on the difference between these two values, Chen et al. suggested that the thermally induced electron detachment we observed for C6F6 in N2 may be occurring from a low-lying excited state of C6F6. If this is the case, collisional deactivation of this excited state of C6F6 to the ground state must be very inefficient.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.467018
