Probing the transition state via photoelectron and photodetachment spectroscopy of H3O−

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The National Academy of Sciences

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The H3O− anion has stable and metastable structures that resemble configurations in the vicinity of the transition state for the neutral reactions OH + H2 ↔ H2O + H. Photoelectron spectroscopy of this anion probes the neutral reaction dynamics in the critical transition-state region. Accurate quantum dynamics calculations of the photoelectron intensity and photodissociation product energies are shown to provide a quantitatively reliable means of interpreting such experimental observations and reveal a detailed picture of the reaction dynamics.

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