The interaction of electrons in the energy range from near zero to
10 eV with CF3Cl physisorbed on a Kr
surface is studied and compared with previous gas-phase experiments on
isolated molecules and CF3Cl clusters.
In the gas phase CF3Cl shows resonances in the
dissociative attachment (DA) cross section at 1.4 eV, near
4−5 eV, and at 9 eV with the 1.4 eV feature assigned as a single
particle resonance with a strong C−Cl
repulsive nature. From adsorbed CF3Cl, we observe
desorption of Cl- and F- with resonances in
the cross
section which can be correlated to the gas-phase DA features.
Despite its antibonding nature, Cl-
desorption
via the single particle resonance is very weak, indicating that
direct desorption processes do not occur; i.e.,
orientations of the molecule with the C−Cl axis pointing away from
the surface can be excluded, and desorption
is always preceded by postdissociation interactions. Charge
trapping is virtually restricted to the low-energy
resonance. Its maximum is at 0.8 eV and reflects the energy shift
of the transient ion due to solvation. The
absolute trapping cross section is 43 ×
10-18 cm2, exceeding the
gas-phase DA value by about 1 order of
magnitude. The behavior of the low-energy resonance is described
in terms of one-dimensional potential
energy curves previously used to model temperature effects in DA to
gas-phase CF3Cl, with the anionic
curve shifted by the solvation energy. It is shown that
autodetachment, which is by far the dominant decay
channel in the gas phase, is substantially suppressed in the condensed
phase.