Electron impact investigation of electronic excitations in furan, thiophene, and pyrrole
- 15 February 1976
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 64 (4) , 1315-1321
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.432397
Abstract
The electronically excited states of furan, thiophene, and pyrrole have been studied by electron impact at scattering angles from 0° to 80°, and impact energies of 30 and 50 eV. Low‐lying features at 3.99 and 5.22 eV in furan, 3.75 and 4.62 eV in thiophene, and 4.21 eV in pyrrole are identified as singlet → triplet transitions. The locations and, for furan and thiophene, the energy splittings of these excitations suggest that they are analogous to the lowest π → π* singlet → triplet transitions in benzene, and that these heterocycles have appreciable aromatic character. A weak feature observed in pyrrole at 5.22 eV is attributed to an optically forbidden singlet → singlet transition. In all three molecules, transitions to several superexcited states are observed.Keywords
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