Multi-state analysis of the OCS ultraviolet absorption including vibrational structure: Communication

Johan Albrecht Schmidt, Matthew Stanley Johnson, G.C. McBane, R. Schinke

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Abstract

The first absorption band of OCS (carbonyl sulfide) is analyzed using potential energy surfaces and transition dipole moment functions of the lowest four singlet and the lowest four triplet states. Excitation of the 2 (1)A' state is predominant except at very low photon energies. It is shown that the vibrational structures in the center of the band are due to excitation of the 2 (3)A'' triplet state, whereas the structures at very low energies are caused by bending excitation in the potential wells of states 2 (1)A' and 1 (1)A''.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Chemical Physics
Volume136
Issue number13
Number of pages4
ISSN0021-9606
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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