DOI: 10.1039/d6cp01235c ISSN: 1463-9076
Dynamics of CO 2 activation by gas-phase transition metal ions: the importance of intersystem crossing
Marcel Meta, Yang Liu, Hua Guo, Jennifer MeyerEnergy and angle differential cross sections show a competition between spin changing and conserving pathways for CO 2 activation by transition metal ions in the gas phase. The intersystem crossing acts as bottleneck leading to indirect dynamics.