Journal
CHEMPHYSCHEM
Volume 9, Issue 12, Pages 1788-1797Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200800214
Keywords
benzoic acid; dimerization; hydrogen bonds; laser spectroscopy; structure elucidation
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO)
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Five different isotopologues of the benzoic acid dimer and a vibronic bond located 57 cm(-1) above the electronic origin, which is assigned to the out-of-plane butterfly motion, ore studied by rotationally resolved UV spectroscopy. From these measurements a ground-state structure with C-2h symmetry is deduced, whereas the symmetry is lowered to C-s, in the S-1 state. The increase in the center-of-moss distance between the two monomers that is found on electronic excitation indicates a decrease in hydrogen-bond strength. The tunneling splittings in the S-0 and S-1 states are 1385.2 +/- 0.7 and 271.2 +/- 0.7 MHz, respectively, corresponding to an increase in barrier height by 7.2% on electronic excitation.
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