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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 116, Issue 1, Pages 653-662Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp209190e
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- National Science Foundation through the CRIF:CRF [CHE-0625419, CHE-0624602, CHE-0625237, CHE-0951634]
- iOpenShell Center for Computational Studies of Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy of Open-Shell and Electronically Excited Species
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Electronic structure calculations of the excited states of the benzene dimer using equation-of-motion coupled cluster method are reported. The calculations reveal large density of electronic states, including multiple valence, Rydberg, and mixed Rydberg-valence states. The calculations of the oscillator strengths for the transitions between the excimer state (i.e., the lowest excited state of the dinner, 1(1)B(1g)) and other excited states allowed us to identify the target state responsible for the excimer absorption as the E-1u state of a mixed Rydberg-valence character at 3.04 eV above the excimer (1(1)B(tg)). Although at D-6h the 1(1)B(1g) -> E-1u transition is symmetry-forbidden, small geometric displacements (to D-2h) that have a negligible effect on the excitation energy split this degenerate state into the dark (4B(3u)) and bright (4B(2u)) components (oscillator strength of. 0.3 au). The excitation energy for this transition depends strongly on the dimer structure, which explains the broad character of the experimentally observed excimer absorption spectrum.
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