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Lanthanum-Mediated Dehydrogenation Of 1- And 2-Butynes: Spectroscopy And Formation Of La(C4H4) Isomers, Wenjin Cao, Dilrukshi C. Hewage, Dong-Sheng Yang
Lanthanum-Mediated Dehydrogenation Of 1- And 2-Butynes: Spectroscopy And Formation Of La(C4H4) Isomers, Wenjin Cao, Dilrukshi C. Hewage, Dong-Sheng Yang
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La atom reactions with 1-butyne and 2-butyne are carried out in a laser-vaporization molecular beam source. Both reactions yield the same La-hydrocarbon products from the dehydrogenation and carbon-carbon bond cleavage and coupling of the butynes. The dehydrogenated species La(C4H4) is characterized with mass-analyzed threshold ionization (MATI) spectroscopy and quantum chemical computations. The MATI spectra of La(C4H4) produced from the two reactions exhibit two identical transitions, each consisting of a strong origin band and several vibrational intervals. The two transitions are assigned to the ionization of two isomers: La(η4–CH2CCCH …