Publication at Faculty of Science |
2011
Abstract
The second ionization energy of beta-picoline was determined from photoionization experiments as (2)IE(beta) = (24.05 +/- 0.1) eV and the threshold for the dehydrogenation of the dication generated by photoionization as AE(-H(2))(beta) = (25.0 +/- 0.2) eV. The second ionization energy is about 0.5 eV lower than values recently determined for alpha- and gamma-picoline, whereas the energies required for dehydrogenation are similar.
In order to rationalize the different behavior of dications generated from these isomeric picolines, we have performed a mass spectrometric investigation of the fragmentation patterns of the individual picoline dications and an extensive series of DFT calculations to explain the observed spectra.