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Spectroscopy And Formation Of Lanthanum-Hydrocarbon Radicals Formed By C—C Bond Cleavage And Coupling Of Propene, Dilrukshi C. Hewage, Wenjin Cao, Sudesh Kumari, Ruchira Silva, Tao Hong Li, Dong-Sheng Yang
Spectroscopy And Formation Of Lanthanum-Hydrocarbon Radicals Formed By C—C Bond Cleavage And Coupling Of Propene, Dilrukshi C. Hewage, Wenjin Cao, Sudesh Kumari, Ruchira Silva, Tao Hong Li, Dong-Sheng Yang
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La reaction with propene is carried out in a laser-vaporization molecular beam source. Three La-hydrocarbon radicals are characterized by mass-analyzed threshold ionization (MATI) spectroscopy. One of these radicals is methylenelanthanum [La(CH2)] (Cs), a Schrock-type metal carbene. The other two are a five-membered 1-lanthanacyclopent-3-en [La(CH2CHCHCH2)] (Cs) and a tetrahedron-like trimethylenemethanelanthanum [La(C(CH2)3)] (C3v). Adiabatic ionization energies and metal-ligand stretching and hydrocarbon-based bending frequencies of these species are measured from the MATI spectra, preferred structures and electronic states are identified by comparing the experimental measurements and spectral …