TY - JOUR
T1 - The C3-bending vibrational levels of the C3-Kr and C3-Xe van der Waals complexes studied by their Ã-X̃ electronic transitions and by ab initio calculations
AU - Chao, Jun Mei
AU - Tham, Keng Seng
AU - Zhang, Guiqiu
AU - Merer, Anthony J.
AU - Hsu, Yen Chu
AU - Hu, Wei Ping
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Ms. Yi-Jen Wang (Academia Sinica) and Ms. Pei-Hsin Kuo (National Chung-Cheng U.) for their assistance during the early stages of this work. We acknowledge financial support from Academia Sinica and the National Science Council of Taiwan, R. O. C. (NSC 95-2113-M-001-036 and NSC 96-2113-M-001-021-MY2).
PY - 2011/2/21
Y1 - 2011/2/21
N2 - Fluorescence excitation spectra and wavelength-resolved emission spectra of the C3-Kr and C3-Xe van der Waals (vdW) complexes have been recorded near the 22-0, 220, 24-0, and 110 bands of the Au1-X1g+system of the C3 molecule. In the excitation spectra, the spectral features of the two complexes are red-shifted relative to those of free C3 by 21.9-38.2 and 34.3-36.1 cm-1, respectively. The emission spectra from the A state of the Kr complex consist of progressions in the two C3-bending vibrations (2, 4), the vdW stretching (3), and bending vibrations (6), suggesting that the equilibrium geometry in the X̃ state is nonlinear. As in the Ar complex Zhang, J. Chem. Phys. 120, 3189 (2004), the C3-bending vibrational levels of the Kr complex shift progressively to lower energy with respect to those of free C3 as the bending quantum number increases. Their vibrational structures could be modeled as perturbed harmonic oscillators, with the dipole-induced dipole terms of the Ar and Kr complexes scaled roughly by the polarizabilities of the Ar and Kr atoms. Emission spectra of the Xe complex, excited near the Ã, 22- level of free C3, consist only of progressions in even quanta of the C3-bending and vdW modes, implying that the geometry in the higher vibrational levels ( bend ≥ 4, Evib ≥ 328 cm-1) of the X̃ state is (vibrationally averaged) linear. In this structure the Xe atom bonds to one of the terminal carbons nearly along the inertial a-axis of bent C 3. Our ab initio calculations of the Xe complex at the level of CCSD(T)aug-cc-pVTZ (C) and aug-cc-pVTZ-PP (Xe) predict that its equilibrium geometry is T-shaped (as in the Ar and Kr complexes), and also support the assignment of a stable linear isomer when the amplitude of the C3 bending vibration is large (u4 ≥ 4).
AB - Fluorescence excitation spectra and wavelength-resolved emission spectra of the C3-Kr and C3-Xe van der Waals (vdW) complexes have been recorded near the 22-0, 220, 24-0, and 110 bands of the Au1-X1g+system of the C3 molecule. In the excitation spectra, the spectral features of the two complexes are red-shifted relative to those of free C3 by 21.9-38.2 and 34.3-36.1 cm-1, respectively. The emission spectra from the A state of the Kr complex consist of progressions in the two C3-bending vibrations (2, 4), the vdW stretching (3), and bending vibrations (6), suggesting that the equilibrium geometry in the X̃ state is nonlinear. As in the Ar complex Zhang, J. Chem. Phys. 120, 3189 (2004), the C3-bending vibrational levels of the Kr complex shift progressively to lower energy with respect to those of free C3 as the bending quantum number increases. Their vibrational structures could be modeled as perturbed harmonic oscillators, with the dipole-induced dipole terms of the Ar and Kr complexes scaled roughly by the polarizabilities of the Ar and Kr atoms. Emission spectra of the Xe complex, excited near the Ã, 22- level of free C3, consist only of progressions in even quanta of the C3-bending and vdW modes, implying that the geometry in the higher vibrational levels ( bend ≥ 4, Evib ≥ 328 cm-1) of the X̃ state is (vibrationally averaged) linear. In this structure the Xe atom bonds to one of the terminal carbons nearly along the inertial a-axis of bent C 3. Our ab initio calculations of the Xe complex at the level of CCSD(T)aug-cc-pVTZ (C) and aug-cc-pVTZ-PP (Xe) predict that its equilibrium geometry is T-shaped (as in the Ar and Kr complexes), and also support the assignment of a stable linear isomer when the amplitude of the C3 bending vibration is large (u4 ≥ 4).
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U2 - 10.1063/1.3506635
DO - 10.1063/1.3506635
M3 - 期刊論文
C2 - 21341850
AN - SCOPUS:79951901851
SN - 0021-9606
VL - 134
JO - Journal of Chemical Physics
JF - Journal of Chemical Physics
IS - 7
M1 - 074313
ER -