Accession Number:

ADA076553

Title:

Photoelectron Emission from Cyclooctatetraene Dianion Solution.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

NEW YORK UNIV N Y DEPT OF CHEMISTRY

Personal Author(s):

• Watanable ,Iwao
• Proscia,James

Report Date:

1979-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

10.0

Abstract:

The quantum yield for photoelectron emission into the gas phase by dipotassium cyclooctatetraene dianion in solution 0.1 to 0.4 M in tetrahydrofuran was measured at 1.5 C as a function of photon energy from 3.5 to 6.7 eV. The resulting quantum yield spectrum consists of a broad band at 5.4 eV which coincides with a peak in the absorption spectrum. The threshold for photoionization in solution is approximately 3.7 eV. It is concluded that photoionization occurs predominantly via autoionization of an excited bound state into the continuum of a transition at lower photon energies. Author

Descriptors:

• *PHOTOIONIZATION
• *POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS
• *PHOTOELECTRONS
• *CYCLOOCTATETRAENE
• EMISSION
• SOLUTIONS(MIXTURES)
• QUANTUM CHEMISTRY
• ENERGY
• QUANTUM EFFICIENCY
• ABSORPTION SPECTRA
• FURANS
• GAS IONIZATION

Subject Categories:

• Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy
• Quantum Theory and Relativity

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE