Direct Evidence of the Benzylium and Tropylium Cations as the two long-lived Isomers of C7H7+

Pavol Jusko, Aude Simon, Shreyak Banhatti +2

Disentangling the isomeric structure of C7H7+ is a longstanding experimental issue. We report here the full mid-infrared vibrational spectrum of C7H7+ tagged with Ne obtained with…