A new electronic state of aniline observed in the transient IR absorption spectrum from S1 in a supersonic jet
T. Ebata, C. Minejima, and N. Mikami,
J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 11070 (2002).

Newly developed ultraviolet(UV)-infrared(IR) double resonant spectroscopy with relaxed fluorescence detection has been applied to the observation of the IR spectrum of aniline in the first electronic excited (S1) state. In the 2900-3900 cm-1 region above the origin of S1, two types of IR transitions have been observed. One is the vibrational transition involving the NH2 and CH stretching vibrations of aniline in the S1 state. By examining the IR spectra for several deuterium substituted species, we found that the NH2 stretching vibrations of S1 locate at 3000 cm-1, representing extremely large frequency decreases (500 cm-1) upon the electronic excitation. The other is the anomalously broad transition appearing above 3300 cm-1. The transition can not be assigned to any type of the vibrational transition of S1 since it occurs in all the isotopomers examined, and we conclude it as the vibronic transition to a new electronic excited state, which may be called as the new “S2” state. We examined the same energy region by measuring the one photon laser induced fluorescence (LIF) and two photon absorption spectra from the ground electronic (S0) state, and we found an intense band origin of the new “S2” state at 37104 cm-1 in the two-photon spectrum. From the consideration of the symmetry, the new “S2” is thought to have B1 symmetric species, which is in good agreement with the recent SAC-CI calculation reported by the Nakatsuji's group, and the new “S2” state is assigned to the 3s-Rydberg(1B1) state.

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