Electron momentum spectroscopy of the highest occupied molecular orbitals of chlorobromomethane

Abstract

The first measurement of the complete valence shell binding energy spectra of chlorobromomethane (CH2 BrCl) is reported by (e, 2e) electron momentum spectrometer using symmetric non-coplanar geometry at an impact energy of 1200 eV plus binding energy. The experimental electron momentum profiles of the highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMOs) are extracted and compared with Hartree-Fock (HF) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. DFT calculation employing B3LYP hybrid functional and the large-sized basis sets provides the best agreement with the experiment.