title: Selective Laser-Induced Oxidation of Carbon Chain Molecules in Cryogenic Matrices
creator: Strelnikov, Dmitry
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
description: We have tested and applied a laser-induced oxidation method for identifying IR-absorptions of those carbon molecules which have known UV/VIS absorptions. For this purpose we trapped the molecules of carbon vapor in non-inert matrices(O2, Ar-O2). Upon matrix annealing, molecular growth took place leading to a mixture of linear carbon species up to C17. The output of an excimer-dye laser was employed to photo-bleach selectively the strong UV/VIS absorptions of these trapped carbon molecules. Correlations of the changes in IR and UV/VIS spectra were observed. After successful tests performed on C9, C11, C13 for which the UV/VIS as well as the IR absorptions are known we applied the method to the C15 molecule for which the UV/VIS absorption is at around 450 nm but the IR absorptions are unknown. In the course of this research we found that the 1819, 1816 cm^-1 pattern of absorptions in an O2-matrix (1818 cm^-1 in an Ar-matrix) can be assigned to the most intense IR-active C13 stretching mode. The pattern of absorption lines at 1721, 1714, 1707 cm^-1 and 1695 cm^-1 can be assigned as site peaks of C15 in an O2-matrix (1713, 1700, 1695 cm^-1 in an Ar-O2-matrix). To obtain information about infrared absorptions of carbon chain oxides of the type CnO and OCnO, oxygen matrices with replaced ^16O -> ^18O isotopes were applied. There we found that two absorptions at 1803 and 1844 cm^-1 in an Ar-matrix (1800 and 1840 cm^-1 in O2) belong to oxides of a carbon chain rather than to a pure carbon species. The absorption at 2180 cm^-1 in an O2-matrix was assigned to the C6O2 molecule. Our data revise some of the assignments existing in the literature.
date: 2004
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/5230/1/PhD_str.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00005230
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-52301
identifier:   Strelnikov, Dmitry  (2004) Selective Laser-Induced Oxidation of Carbon Chain Molecules in Cryogenic Matrices.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/5230/
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language: eng