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Published February 24, 1995 | public
Journal Article

Femtochemistry of organometallics: dynamics of metal-metal and metal-ligand bond cleavage in M_2(CO)_(10)

Abstract

We report femtochemical studies of the organometallic dimetal decacarbonyl. By the use of mass spectrometry, we obtain the temporal dynamics in the channels for metal-metal and metal-ligand bond cleavage. The time scale observed for cleavage and for structural bridging indicates the nature of the repulsion along the two reaction coordinates and the interplay between the bond order and the femtosecond dynamics.

Additional Information

© 1995 Elsevier Science B.V. Received 30 December 1994. This work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. We wish to thank Professor J. Manz for stimulating and helpful correspondence, and Professor S. Ruhman for communicating his work.

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