THE APPLICATION OF ICR SPECTROSCOPY TO THE PHOTODISSOCIATION OF IONS

Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve UniversityThe trapping of gaseous ions in an ion cyclotron resonance spectrometer has given significant information concerning near-thermal ion-molecule reactions and has recently been extended to the study of light-induced reactions. Both primary and secondary light-induced reactions have been shown to be energy dependent, yielding interesting information for several systems. Since even the most basic information concerning ion structures and energy states is scarce, the determination even of broad features of the wavelength dependence of primary dissociation processes can give interesting information about upper electronic levels of the ionic species. If the photodissociation process could be observed with the high spectral resolution of a dye laser, the assignment of vibrational structure could provide new information on symmetries and bonds of simple ions