The Photoelectron Spectrum of Thiazyl Cyanide, NSCN
A. Wahab Allaf, Roy L. Johnston and Roger J. Suffolk
Atomic Energy Commission, Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 6091,
Damascus, Syria
and School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom.
Article: Chemical Physics Letters 1995, 233, 33-35.
Abstract
Thiazyl cyanide, NSCN, has been produced in a flow system by passing
thiazyl chloride, NSCl, over heated silver cyanide, AgCN. The He I
photoelectron spectrum of NSCN shows prominent bands at 11.33, 13.52,
14.02 and 14.97 eV, in good agreement with ab initio SCF
molecular orbital calculations. The first ionisation of NSCN is
attributed to the removal of an electron from the weakly bonding 8a' HOMO.
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