Core-shell photoabsorption and photoelectron spectra of gas-phase pentacene : Experiment and theory

• The C K-edge photoabsorption and 1s core-level photoemission of pentacene (C22H14) free molecules are experimentally measured, and calculated by self-consistent-field and static-exchange approximation ab initio methods. Six nonequivalent C atoms present in the molecule contribute to the C 1s photoemission spectrum. The complex near-edge structures of the carbon K-edge absorption spectrum present two main groups of discrete transitions between 283 and 288  eV photon energy, due to absorption to * virtual orbitals, and broader structures at higher energy, involving * virtual orbitals. The sharp absorption structures to the * empty orbitals lay well below the thresholds for the C 1s ionizations, caused by strong excitonic and localization effects. We can definitely explain the C K-edge absorption spectrum as due to both final (virtual) and initial (core) orbital effects, mainly involving excitations to the two lowest-unoccupied molecular orbitals of * symmetry, from the six chemically shifted C 1s core orbitals. ©2005 American Institute of Physics

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organic compounds

photoexcitation

photoelectron spectra

SCF calculations

ab initio calculations

chemical shift

molecular electronic states

molecule-photon collisions

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