Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

H2 roaming chemistry and the formation of H3 + from organic molecules in strong laser fields

  • Nagitha Ekanayake,
  • Travis Severt,
  • Muath Nairat,
  • Nicholas P. Weingartz,
  • Benjamin M. Farris,
  • Balram Kaderiya,
  • Peyman Feizollah,
  • Bethany Jochim,
  • Farzaneh Ziaee,
  • Kurtis Borne,
  • Kanaka Raju P.,
  • Kevin D. Carnes,
  • Daniel Rolles,
  • Artem Rudenko,
  • Benjamin G. Levine,
  • James E. Jackson,
  • Itzik Ben-Itzhak,
  • Marcos Dantus

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07577-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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H2 roaming is associated with H3 + formation when certain organic molecules are exposed to strong laser fields. Here, the mechanistic details and time-resolved dynamics of H3 + formation from a series of alcohols were obtained and found that the product yield decreases as the carbon chain length increases.