Unprecedented double-electron transfer to a triply charged cation: Reactions of C with anthracene, corannulene, benzo[rst]pentaphene and pyrene
✍ Scribed by Gholamreza Jahavery; Hansjürgen Becker; Simon Petrie; Pei-Chao Cheng; Helmut Schwarz; Lawrence T. Scott; Diethard K. Bohme
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 373 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-5174
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
An unprecented double‐electron transfer reaction has been observed between triply charged buckminsterfullerene, C, and the PAH molecules anthracene, corannulene, benzo[rst] pentaphene and pyrene at 294 ± 2 K in helium at 0.35 ± 0.01 Torr. The measurements were made with a selected‐ion flow tube (SIFT) apparatus. With anthracene, corannulene and pyrene double‐electron transfer was a minor channel (<5%): single‐electron transfer was the predominant channel. With benzo [rst] pentaphene, which requires the lowest energy for double ionization, single and double‐electron transfer proceeded in almost equal amounts.