Reaction Pathways of Water Dimer Following Single Ionization

Abstract

Water dimer (H 2 O) 2 �a vital component of the earth's atmosphere�is an important prototypical hydrogen-bonded system. It provides direct insights into fundamental chemical and biochemical processes, e.g., proton transfer and ionic supramolecular dynamics, occurring in astro-and atmospheric chemistry. Exploiting a purified molecular beam of water dimer and multimass ion imaging, we report the simultaneous detection of all generated ion products of (H 2 O) 2 + fragmentation following single ionization. Detailed information about ion yields and reaction energetics of 13 ionradical pathways, 6 of which are new, of (H 2 O) 2 + are presented, including strong 18 Oisotope effects.