A pass too far: dissociation of internal energy selected paracyclophane cations, theory and experimentElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Calculated geometries of the neutrals and the ions of the three investigated paracyclophanes; calculated vertical transition energies of excited and ground ionic states; the six highest occupied molecular orbitals of MHPC; TOF distribution of o-DHPC at 10.3 eV in coincidence with all electrons; ab initio statistical fit of o-DHPC: CoG, breakd

• Main Authors: Hemberger, Patrick, Bodi, Andras, Schon, Christof, Steinbauer, Michael, Fischer, Kathrin H, Kaiser, Conrad, Fischer, Ingo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.08.2012

The vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photoionization and dissociative photoionization of three hydroxy-substituted [2.2]paracyclophane derivatives were studied yielding adiabatic ionization energies and dissociative photoionization energies (appearance energies). The simplest dissociation pathway is the bre...