ON MICROWAVE DISCHARGE SOURCES OF NEW CHEMICAL SPECIES FOR MATRIX-ISOLATION SPECTROSCOPY
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1976
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Ohio State University
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The mechanism for trapping new chemical species by condensing the products of a microwave discharge with inert matrices has been investigated Variation of geometrical, electrical and chemical parameters of the Ar, HCl, $Cl_{2}$ system indicated that the major product species -- $HCl_{2}$ radical or anion - was formed under conditions where neither ions nor atomic species produced in the discharge were condensed in the matrix. The mechanism for forming the product species is vacuum ultraviolet photolysis of the sample during deposition with radiation from the microwave discharge, since a coaxial orifice discharge tube provided photolysis and produced the product species, while studies with an off-axis orifice discharge tube, which could not serve as a photolysis source, did not produce the product. The H atom-$Cl_{2}$ reaction gave HCl using both discharge tubes, but the $HCl_{2}^{x}$ species was produced only with the coaxial tube. Hence, this species requires vacuum ultraviolet light in addition to H and Cl atoms for its production, and its identification as $HCL_{2}^{-}$ is strongly supported.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia