Abstract
Low energy electron attachment to gas phase carbonyl fluoride, F 2CO, has been performed by means of a crossed electron-molecular beam experiment in an electron energy range from 0 to 30 eV with an energy resolution of ∼0.5 eV. The most intense signal is observed at 19 amu due to F − and two other anionic species with lower intensities at 38 and 47 amu assigned to F 2 − and COF −, respectively. Anion efficiency curves of the three anions have been measured. Product anions (F − and COF −) are observed mainly in the low energy region arising from simple bond breaking, while F 2 − is being produced from two bond cleavages with further structural and electronic rearrangement. Quantum chemical calculations on the electronic properties of F 2CO have been performed in order to complement the experimental results.
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