A simple technique for making a continuous liquid flow in a vacuum (liquid beam) was developed and combined with multiphoton ionization and time-of4ight mass spectrometry. This technique was applied to the texmanc-e two-photon ionization of aniline in ethanol (0.2-3 M). Binary cluster ions of anilin
Inhomogeneous solvation in an aniline—ethanol solution studied by laser photoionization of a liquid beam
✍ Scribed by Fumitaka Mafuné; Yoshihiro Takeda; Takashi Nagata; Tamotsu Kondow
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 542 KB
- Volume
- 218
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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✦ Synopsis
A continuous liquid flow of an aniline-ethanol (AN-EtOH) solution was introduced into a vacuum. The liquid beam was irradiated by a focused UV laser in the range 265-300 nm, and product ions ejected into th'e vacuum were analyzed by a reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Ions of AN: (n > 1 ), ANi . (EtOH), (n 2 1, m 2 1) and H+ . (EtOH), (m 2 1) were observed in the gas phase. The essential feature of the excitation spectrum for AN+.EtOH agrees with that of the absorption spectrum of a dilute solution of aniline in ethanol, whereas the AN: spectrum resembles the UV absorption spectrum of an aniline crystal. These findings indicate an inhomogeneous distribution of aniline molecules in the AN-EtOH solution.
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