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2007 (English)In: Physical Review. A, ISSN 1050-2947, Vol. 76, no 2, p. 124305-Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
A detailed study of the umbrellalike vibration in inner-shell spectroscopy is presented. The high-resolution x-ray absorption spectrum for the lowest lying core excitation of the CH3 free radical was recorded. High quality potential energy surfaces (PES) for the initial and final states of the transition were calculated as a function of the symmetrical stretching and the umbrella deformation coordinates. The strong anharmonicity along the umbrella coordinate in the double-well region of the PES of the core excited state has a strong effect on the bending vibrational progressions. The excellent agreement between the experiment and theory allows an accurate spectroscopic characterization of the vibrational structure of the electronic transition, and the estimation of the umbrella inversion time of 149 fs.
Keywords
free radicals, molecular configurations, optical rotation, organic compounds, potential energy surfaces, vibrational states, X-ray absorption spectra
National Category
Physical Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-12686 (URN)10.1103/PhysRevA.76.022509 (DOI)
2007-10-302007-10-302009-04-23Bibliographically approved