Dissociative Ionization and Coulomb Explosion of Molecular Bromocyclopropane in an Intense Femtosecond Laser Field

The dissociative ionization and Coulomb explosion of molecular bromocyclopropane (BCP) has been experimentally investigated by time-of-flight mass spectrum and dc-slice imaging technology. The sliced 2D images, kinetic energy releases and angular distributions of the fragment ions are obtained under the intense femtosecond laser fields (8.0 × 10¹³–2.0 × 10¹⁴ W/cm²). The results indicated that the low kinetic energy release (KER) components come from dissociative ionization of BCP⁺, while the high KER components come from Coulomb explosion of BCP²⁺. The chemical reaction path of BCP⁺ has been calculated by ab initio calculation, furthermore, the C-Br bond cleavage involved Coulomb explosion channels have been revealed, and the corresponding dehydrogenation mechanism has been confirmed.

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