Time-resolved EPR and optical studies of intermoiety interactions in the lowest triplet state of L-shaped dimers of naphthalene: Conformation dependence of excitation exchange interaction

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1662-1669

  Terazima, Masahide ^a   Cai, Jianjian ^b   Lim, Edward C ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

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EID: 0001567850     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp993645y     Document Type: Article

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29. -/A) = - 2.54 eV, we obtain 4.36 eV for the energy of the CT state. The energy gap between the CT state and the lowest triplet state (E = 2.64 eV) is therefore about 1.72 eV for naphthalene in n-hexane.
30. 2v dimer (Note that this axes convention differs from that used for the principal values of the ZFS tensor, Figure 4).