The three-photon spectrum of the 'Bzu-l Alg transition in gas-phase benzene has been recorded and analyzed. Though formally allowed at the three-photon level, this transition is seen to be entirely vibronically induced. The last unknown e2g vibration (vg) in the 'Bzu state is identified.
The 1B1u ← 1A1g 0—0 transition in crystal benzene
✍ Scribed by J.B. Birks; E. Pantos; T.D.S. Hamilton
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 257 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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✦ Synopsis
The transition linewidth AE in crystal C I' 6 J6, C6D6 and symC6H3D3 has been measured as a function of temperature T from 4.2 to 135"K, and it extrapolates to a common value of tie = 50 cm-' at 0°K. In CbH6 aE = (50+ 7T"2) cm-', indicative of strong cxciton-phonon couplin g, and there is a line shift of +40 cm-' per substituent deuteron. Fluorescence excitation spectral data are used to separate the 'B I" (= Sz) decay rate kH = 9.4 X 101' set-', derived from AEo, into Sz-Si internal conversion (rate = 6.6 X 10" set-') and S;?-S, (channel 3) internal conversion (rate = 2.8 X lO'2 set-'). A similar value of kH = 9.9 X 1012 set -' is obtained from the S2-So fluorescence quantum yield of liquid benzene.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
The change in the in-plane polxizability of benzene uPon excitation from the 'Atg state to the 'Bzu state is deduced from electric field perturbation experiments. These are carried out on the First vibronically allowed band of benzene in a rigid solution of 3.methylpentane (3.XIP) at 7?K. The obser
Low temperature absorption spectra of benzene films were observed in the 'B,, -'Alg trxnsition region. T11e origins of the two progressions of the totally symmetric vibration IJT(~,~) are assigned to the crystal-field-induced O-O transition nnd to the false origin 0 + ~~lg(e2~).