A. Giuliani et al., Electronic excitation and oscillator strength of ethyl bromide by vacuum ultraviolet photoabsorption and electron energy loss spectroscopy, J CHEM PHYS, 112(14), 2000, pp. 6285-6292
The high resolution vacuum ultraviolet photoabsorption spectrum of ethyl br
omide has been recorded between 5 and 10.15 eV (248-122 nm) using synchrotr
on radiation. It exhibits a broad structureless valence band centred at 6.1
eV of low cross section followed by a region dominated by excitation of Ry
dberg states. A high resolution photoelectron spectrum (PES) of the lowest
energy ionization band has been obtained and provides ionization energies n
ecessary for identification of related Rydberg-excited states. Also, analys
is of the vibrational fine structure in the PES has allowed identification
of the normal vibrational modes excited and their wave numbers in the ion.
These data, in turn, have been used in the assignment of the lowest energy
photoabsorption bands arising from electron excitation into the 5s Rydberg
orbital. The electron energy loss spectrum, recorded from 6.5 to 14.1 eV, u
nder electric-dipole conditions, confirms the magnitude of the photoabsorpt
ion cross-section values obtained using the synchrotron radiation and exten
ds the differential and optical oscillator strength values up to 14.004 eV.
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