G. Bazalgette et al., PHOTODISSOCIATION OF ICL MOLECULES ORIENTED IN AN ELECTRIC-FIELD - DIRECT DETERMINATION OF THE SIGN OF THE DIPOLE-MOMENT, Chemical physics letters, 244(3-4), 1995, pp. 195-198
We have used the 'brute force' technique of Loesch to orient strongly
a molecular beam of ICl, and we have measured directly the orientation
by a photodissociation experiment. This experiment gives also a direc
t access to the sign of the dipole moment of ICl in its X (1) Sigma(+)
state, which is found to be I+Cl-.