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Ionic Species in a Naphthalene Plasma: Understanding Fragmentation Patterns and Growth of PAHs
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A ( IF 2.7 ) Pub Date : 2019-02-21 00:00:00 , DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b00100
Martin Alliati 1 , David Donaghy 1 , Xin Tu 1 , James W Bradley 1
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The role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the interstellar medium (ISM) is a key question in astrophysics. Moreover, our limited understanding of the plasma-driven processes of PAHs in the ISM motivates the present study on naphthalene as a model compound. In this work, a mass spectrometric characterization of the positive and negative ionic species in a naphthalene plasma was carried out. According to our findings, the main naphthalene dissociation channels upon electronic excitation proceed through hydrogen or acetylene loss. In addition, we report experimental evidence of the hydrogen abstraction-acetylene addition mechanism taking place under plasma conditions, which contributes to our understanding of the growth of PAHs. Regarding negative ions, species belonging to the astrochemically relevant family of polyynyl anions were detected, i.e., C4H and C6H. We postulate that the latter could be formed in a “top-down” chemistry as fragments of PAHs. Finally, our results show that negative ions add to neutral naphthalene molecules yielding larger anions, which suggests that negatively charged species may also play a role in the growth of PAHs.

中文翻译:

萘等离子体中的离子物种:了解碎片化模式和多环芳烃的生长

星际介质(ISM)中多环芳烃(PAHs)的作用是天体物理学中的关键问题。此外,我们对ISM中PAHs的等离子体驱动过程的有限了解促使当前对萘作为模型化合物的研究。在这项工作中,对萘等离子体中的正离子种类和负离子种类进行了质谱表征。根据我们的发现,电子激发时主要的萘离解通道是通过氢或乙炔的损失而进行的。此外,我们报告了在等离子体条件下发生的氢提取-乙炔加成机理的实验证据,这有助于我们了解PAHs的生长。关于负离子,4 H 和C 6 H 。我们假设后者可以“自上而下”的化学形式形成PAHs的片段。最后,我们的结果表明,负离子会添加到中性萘分子中,从而产生更大的阴离子,这表明带负电荷的物质也可能在PAHs的生长中发挥作用。
更新日期:2019-02-21
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