Electronic emission spectroscopy and decay dynamics of Group IV tetrabromo molecular ions
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions
- Vol. 86 (11) , 2021-2026
- https://doi.org/10.1039/ft9908602021
Abstract
Two broad continuous bands are observed in the visible following electron-impact ionization of an He-seeded molecular beam of SiBr4. By using tunable vacuum UV radiation from a synchrotron source to measure the threshold energy at which the fluorescence bands occur, it is shown that the bands are related to the initial formation of the C 2T2 state of the parent ion SiBr+ 4. By comparison with photoelectron data the bands are assigned to bound–free transitions in SiBr+ 4 C 2T2–A2T2 and X2T1. Analogous transitions are observed with GeBr+ 4, but CBr+ 4 does not fluoresce. The radiative lifetimes of SiBr+ 4 and GeBr+ 4 C 2T2 are 47.6 and 67.1 ns, respectively. The results are compared with the electronic emission spectra of the three tetrafluoro and tetrachloro molecular ions.Keywords
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