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Jet spectroscopy of organic scintillation compounds: low-frequency modes of 2,5-diphenylfuran and related species

✍ Scribed by Elisa A. Mangle; Pier R. Salvi; R.Jefferso̧n Babbit; Andrea L. Motyka; Michael R. Topp


Book ID
103023427
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
705 KB
Volume
133
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-2614

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✦ Synopsis


The fluorescence excitation spectra of a number of furan-based scintillation compounds, including 25diphenylfuran (PPF), have been measured under jet-cooled conditions.

While many of the species are effectively planar, steric crowding is found to force diphenylisobenzofuran into a non-planar ground state, so that two rotameric forms are observed. The molecule PBD is also found to be non-planar, consistently with literature data for biphenyl itself. Finally, evidence of torsional mode coupling is observed for a-naphthyl-substituted compounds.