Effect of protonation on the electronic structure of aromatic molecules: naphthaleneH+

Ivan Alata, Reza Omidyan, Michel Broquier, Claude Dedonder, Otto Dopfer, Christophe Jouvet

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · 2010 · 69 citations · 32 references

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Abstract

Protonated naphthalene, the smallest protonated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon cation, absorbs in the visible, around 500 nm, which corresponds to an unusually large red shift with respect to the neutral naphthalene counterpart.

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