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Reactivity and Collisional Deexcitation of a Metastable State of Mn+
Strobel, Fred,Ridge, D. P.
, p. 3635 - 3639 (2007/10/02)
Evidence is presented that electron impact on Mn2(CO)10 produces a metastable state of Mn+ that is 22.4 +/- 1.4percent of the Mn+ formed.The excited state reacts with ICl to produce more MnI+ than does the ground state.Charge exchange reactions indicate the state to be the 5S state.The lifetime of the state is mesured to be greater than 5.8 +/- 0.7 s.The metastable state of Mn+ is shown to undergo collosional deexcitation with methane at a rate of (1.88 +/- 0.35) x 10-9 molecules-1 cm3 s-1 to form ground-state Mn+.The mechanism for this process is discussed in terms of an oxidative addition of methane to the metal followed by reductive elimination of excited methane.Simple molecular orbital arguments support that mechanism.A lower limit of 50.5 +/- 0.1 kcal mol-1 is obtained for D(Cr+-Cl), D(Mn+-I), and D(Mn+-Cl).