Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Step-by-step state-selective tracking of fragmentation dynamics of water dications by momentum imaging

  • Travis Severt,
  • Zachary L. Streeter,
  • Wael Iskandar,
  • Kirk A. Larsen,
  • Averell Gatton,
  • Daniel Trabert,
  • Bethany Jochim,
  • Brandon Griffin,
  • Elio G. Champenois,
  • Matthew M. Brister,
  • Dylan Reedy,
  • Demitri Call,
  • Richard Strom,
  • Allen L. Landers,
  • Reinhard Dörner,
  • Joshua B. Williams,
  • Daniel S. Slaughter,
  • Robert R. Lucchese,
  • Thorsten Weber,
  • C. William McCurdy,
  • Itzik Ben-Itzhak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32836-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Determining the time evolution of reactions at the quantum mechanical level improves our understanding of molecular dynamics. Here, authors separate the breakup of water, one bond at a time, from other processes leading to the same final products and experimentally identify, separate, and follow step by step two breakup paths of the transient OD+ fragment.