Electron Impact Catalytic Dissociation: Two-Bond Breaking by a Low-Energy Catalytic Electron

✍ Scribed by Dr. Daly Davis; Victor P. Vysotskiy; Dr. Y. Sajeev; Prof. Dr. Lorenz S. Cederbaum

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 462 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201005129

✦ Synopsis

In low-energy electron impact on neutral molecules, the free electron and the molecule often form an intermediate metastable electron-molecule compound. This compound may either release the excess electron by autodetachment (AD) or fragment by a reaction called dissociative electron attachment [DEA, Eq.