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GARY E. DOUBERLY, ALLEN M. RICKS AND MICHAEL A. DUNCAN, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602.
Cold, rare gas tagged, gas phase carbocations are produced in a pulsed electric discharge supersonic expansion cluster source. The infrared spectra of the size-selected species are obtained via infrared photodissociation spectroscopy. The structure and spectroscopy (700-4000 cm-1) of the benzenium, toluenium and tropylium ions will be discussed. The infrared spectral signatures of the title ions are compared to the interstellar unidentified infrared emission bands.