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Molecular anions are important in many gas- and solution-phase chemical processes; examples include the classic Waiden inversion reaction in organic chemistry and the complex set of anion-molecule reactions that establish the equilibrium concentrations of negatively-charged species in the upper atmosphere. Molecular anions also play an important role in the scattering or capture of electrons by molecules, including dissociative attachment processes—a subject of this symposium. However, little definitive experimental information exists on the structure and properties of molecular anions, other than electron affinities, which can be accurately measured by photodetachment spectroscopy.1
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Dunning, T.H., Peterson, K.A., Van Mourik, T. (2003). Calculation of Electron Affinities. In: Guberman, S.L. (eds) Dissociative Recombination of Molecular Ions with Electrons. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0083-4_39
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