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Rydberg character and dissociative behaviour of the π 3π∗ configuration: Carbon dioxide and acetylene
✍ Scribed by Martin Jungen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 385 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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✦ Synopsis
It has been observed that electronically excited states of molecules occasionally have a different amount of Rydberg character even though they arise from the same electronic configuration. Recent examples are CO* and CaHa. We try to explain this fact with the aid of a consideration due to Merer and Mulliken by connecting the dissociative behaviour of the states in question with the dimensions of the excited orbital.