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Photofragmentation and electron detachment of aromatic phosphonate, sulfonate and phosphate oxyanions

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The photodetachment energy threshold, as well as vibrationally resolved spectral signatures of the lower lying excited states and dipole bound states in model aromatic phosphonate, sulfonate and phosphate oxyanions, has been investigated using a photofragmentation spectrometer equipped with a cold ion trap. The effect of the laser excitation was monitored by mass-selective detection of product ion fragments or, alternatively, measuring the yield of the complementary neutral radicals discriminated according to their kinetic energy. The anions phenylphosphate, phenylsulfonate and p-toluenesulfonate evidenced the expected behavior, characterized by the predominance of ionic fragmentation processes, at low energies, rapidly evolving to a scenario controlled by the electron photodetachment channel at higher energies. Surprisingly for such a similar system, the phenylphosphonate anion does not have any ionic fragmentation channels and only exhibits the presence of dipole bound states.

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This work has been conducted within the International Associated Laboratory LEMIR (CNRS/CONICET) and was supported by CONICET, FONCyT, SeCyT-UNC, CNRS (INSIS) and the ANR Research Grant (ANR2010BLANC040501-ESPEM, ANR17CE05000502-Wsplit and ANR-16-CE29-0017). The authors acknowledge the use of the computing facility cluster Meso-LUM of the LUMAT federation (LUMAT FR 2764).

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    Jennifer A. Noble, Claude Dedonder, Isaure Carvin & Christophe Jouvet

  2. INQUIMAE (CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires), DQIAQF (Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria), 3er piso, Pab. II, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Ernesto Marceca

  3. LIDYL, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay; CEA Saclay, Bât 522, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Eric Gloaguen

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Noble, J.A., Marceca, E., Dedonder, C. et al. Photofragmentation and electron detachment of aromatic phosphonate, sulfonate and phosphate oxyanions. Eur. Phys. J. D 75, 95 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00094-8

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