Gaseous Electronics

81

TETRACHLOROETHENE

CONTENTS

81.1 Selected References

 

81.2 Ionization Cross Sections

81.3 Attachment Cross Sections

81.4 Attachment Rate Constant

References

 

Tetrachloroethene (C₂Cl₄), synonym perchloroethylene, is an electron-attaching molecule that has 80 electrons. It has 12 modes of vibrational excitation as shown in Table 81.1 (Shimanouchi, 1976).

81.1 SELECTED REFERENCES

See Table 81.2.

81.2 IONIZATION CROSS SECTIONS

Table 81.3 and Figure 81.1 show the ionization cross sections measured by Hudson et al. (2001).

TABLE 81.1Vibrational Modes and Energies for C₂Cl₄

Designation	Type of Motion	Energy (meV)
ν1	CC stretch	194.8
ν2	CCl2 symmetrical -stretch	55.4
ν3	CCl2 scissor	29.4
ν4	CCl2 twist	13.6
ν5	CCl ...