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Coulomb Explosions and Stability of Multiply Charged Ions in the Gas Phase
Author(s) -
Schröder Detlef
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200301728
Subject(s) - coulomb explosion , ion , coulomb , fragmentation (computing) , charged particle , atomic physics , charge (physics) , gas phase , chemical physics , chemistry , electrostatics , molecular dynamics , physics , computational chemistry , nuclear physics , ionization , quantum mechanics , electron , computer science , operating system
Stopping ions from going to pieces: Multiply charged molecular ions have fascinating bonding schemes which must counterbalance the strong Coulomb repulsion of the charge centers. In molecular‐beam experiments it has been possible to generate small multiply charged anions, such as [Cr(SCN) 4 ] 2− , and analyze their fragmentation behavior (see scheme).