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CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 316, Issue 1-3, Pages 253-259Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2005.04.047
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The polarization of phosphorescence and phosphorescence excitation in benzene, naphthalene, phenanthrene and their corresponding perdeuterated forms in EPA at 77 K were examined using the photoselection method with both vertically and horizontally polarized light in conjunction with a delay between excitation and detection of emission. Based on the results, polarization in the spectral regions examined is consistent with a situation where the excitation and emission are at an angle near to 90 degrees (i.e., where the polarization it is close to -0.33); this confirms that the phosphorescence of the compounds studied is polarized in the plane normal to the molecular plane. Consequently, any vibronic mixing and singlet-state mixing mechanisms potentially involved in the strengthening of T-1-> S-0 transitions in these compounds must posses a polarization normal to the molecular plane. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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