A study of the unimolecular decomposition of the (C2H4)+2 complex

The energetics of the unimolecular reactions C2H+4⋅C2H4→C3H+5+CH3 and C4H+7+H have been reinvestigated by the molecular beam photoionization method. At nozzle expansion conditions where the concentrations of (C2H4)3 and heavier clusters produced in the beam are high, the appearance energies (AE) for C3H+5 and C4H+7 were found to shift to energies lower than the expected thermochemical thresholds for the formation of C3H+5 and C4H+7 from ethylene dimers. This indicates that ethylene trimers and heavier clusters can give rise to the same product ions as ethylene dimers. The AE’s for C3H+5 and C4H+7 from (C2H4)2 measured in an ethylene beam, which mainly consists of C2H4 and (C2H4)2, are 10.21±0.04 eV (1214±5 A) and 10.05±0.04 eV (1234±5 A), respectively. Taking into account the error estimates of the thermochemical thresholds for the formation of C3H+5 and C4H+7 from (C2H4)2, the latter values are in accordance with the conclusion of previous studies that the barriers for the reverse reactions of the ion–mo...

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