The correlation-bound anion of p-chloroaniline

Sandra M Ciborowski; Rachel M Harris; Gaoxiang Liu; Chalynette J Martinez-Martinez; Piotr Skurski; Kit H Bowen Jr

doi:10.1063/1.5096986

The correlation-bound anion of p-chloroaniline

J Chem Phys. 2019 Apr 28;150(16):161103. doi: 10.1063/1.5096986.

Authors

Sandra M Ciborowski¹, Rachel M Harris¹, Gaoxiang Liu¹, Chalynette J Martinez-Martinez¹, Piotr Skurski², Kit H Bowen Jr¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
² Department of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland.

PMID: 31042894
DOI: 10.1063/1.5096986

Abstract

The p-chloroaniline anion was generated by Rydberg electron transfer and studied via velocity-map imaging anion photoelectron spectroscopy. The vertical detachment energy (VDE) of the p-chloroaniline anion was measured to be 6.6 meV. This value is in accord with the VDE of 10 meV calculated by Skurski and co-workers. They found the binding of the excess electron in the p-chloroaniline anion to be due almost entirely to electron correlation effects, with only a small contribution from the long-range dipole potential. As such, the p-chloroaniline anion is the first essentially correlation-bound anion to be observed experimentally.