Observation of New Ring Isomers for Carbon Cluster Anions
- 11 May 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (19) , 4197-4200
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.4197
Abstract
High-resolution ion-mobility measurements have resolved a number of isomers for carbon cluster anions in the drift-time region previously assigned to monocyclic rings. Tight-binding calculations have been performed to generate feasible geometries, which were compared to the experimental data by calculating their mobilities. Structures composed of a short chain of carbon atoms attached to a carbon ring are found to be the most plausible geometries for these new isomers. A number of different bicyclic ring isomers have also been resolved for the first time.Keywords
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