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Novel gaseous transient species: Generation and characterization

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Due to special properties of transient species, such as short-lived, unstable, reactive, and even explosive, the generation and subsequent characterization is a great challenge for experimental chemists. In our laboratory, systematic researches have been carried out to investigate novel transient species: reactive halogen species (RHS), short-lived free radicals, and metastable pseudohalogen compounds, based on the successive technical improvements on the Hel Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES). In this review, the topic mainly focuses on innovative methods of generating novel transient species, and subsequent geometric and electronic structure characterizations of these species combined with quantum chemical calculations.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China

    Zeng XiaoQing & Wang DianXun

  2. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China

    Zeng XiaoQing

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Recommended by Prof. Xu Guangxian, Editor in Chief of Science in China, Series B: Chemistry, this review briefly introduces Prof. Wang Dianxun’s research achievements, which won the National Natural Science Award in 2006

Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 2880168, 27170306, 49392703, 29673049, 29973051, 20073052, 50372071, 20473094, 20477047, 20577052 and 20673123), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hundred Talents Fund) and Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. KJCX2-H2, KJCX2-SW-H8 and KZCX2-YW-205), and 973 Program, Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2006CB403701)

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Zeng, X., Wang, D. Novel gaseous transient species: Generation and characterization. SCI CHINA SER B 50, 145–169 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-007-0020-1

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