The H+(CO)2 and D+(CO)2 molecular ions were investigated by infrared spectroscopy in the gas phase and in para-hydrogen matrices. In the gas phase, ions were generated in a supersonic molecular beam by a pulsed electrical discharge. After extraction into a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, the ions were mass selected and probed by infrared laser photodissociation spectroscopy in the 700 cm−1–3500 cm−1 region. Spectra were measured using either argon or neon tagging, as well as tagging with an excess CO molecule. In solid para-hydrogen, ions were generated by electron bombardment of a mixture of CO and hydrogen, and absorption spectra were recorded in the 400 cm−1–4000 cm−1 region with a Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer. A comparison of the measured spectra with the predictions of anharmonic theory at the CCSD(T)/ANO1 level suggests that the predominant isomers formed by either argon tagging or para-hydrogen isolation are higher lying (+7.8 kcal mol−1), less symmetric isomers, and not the global minimum proton-bound dimer. Changing the formation environment or tagging strategy produces other non-centrosymmetric structures, but there is no spectroscopic evidence for the centrosymmetric proton-bound dimer. The formation of higher energy isomers may be caused by a kinetic effect, such as the binding of X (=Ar, Ne, or H2) to H+(CO) prior to the formation of X H+(CO)2. Regardless, there is a strong tendency to produce non-centrosymmetric structures in which HCO+ remains an intact core ion.
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August 25 2020
Infrared spectroscopy of H+(CO)2 in the gas phase and in para-hydrogen matrices
Daniel Leicht;
Daniel Leicht
1
Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia
, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Brandon M. Rittgers;
Brandon M. Rittgers
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Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia
, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Gary E. Douberly
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Gary E. Douberly
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Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia
, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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J. Philipp Wagner;
J. Philipp Wagner
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Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia
, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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David C. McDonald, II;
David C. McDonald, II
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Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia
, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Daniel T. Mauney;
Daniel T. Mauney
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Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia
, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Masashi Tsuge
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Masashi Tsuge
a)
2
Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University
, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
3
Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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Yuan-Pern Lee
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Yuan-Pern Lee
2
Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University
, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
4
Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Chiao Tung University
, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
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Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences Academia Sinica
, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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Michael A. Duncan
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Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia
, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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J. Chem. Phys. 153, 084305 (2020)
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June 24 2020
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August 06 2020
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Daniel Leicht, Brandon M. Rittgers, Gary E. Douberly, J. Philipp Wagner, David C. McDonald, Daniel T. Mauney, Masashi Tsuge, Yuan-Pern Lee, Michael A. Duncan; Infrared spectroscopy of H+(CO)2 in the gas phase and in para-hydrogen matrices. J. Chem. Phys. 28 August 2020; 153 (8): 084305. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0019731
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