STIMULATED RAMAN-SPECTROSCOPY IN THE NU-1 REGION OF ISOTOPICALLY SUBSTITUTED BENZENE DIMERS - EVIDENCE FOR SYMMETRICALLY INEQUIVALENT BENZENE MOIETIES

被引:52
作者
HENSON, BF
HARTLAND, GV
VENTURO, VA
HERTZ, RA
FELKER, PM
机构
[1] Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
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10.1016/0009-2614(91)90016-3
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We report ionization-detected stimulated Raman measurements on four benzene dimer isotopomers. Both isotopically pure and isotopically mixed dimers exhibit a splitting of their v1 fundamentals into doublets. The two excited vibrational levels associated with a given species' Raman doublet give rise to significantly different vibronic spectra. It is argued that the results are strong evidence for a ground-state benzene dimer geometry in which the benzene moieties are symmetrically inequivalent.
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