ENCH 213 Lecture Notes - Fine Structure, Irradiance, Monochromator

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What happens when a molecule absorbs light: electronic transition (singlet & triplet, heat loss, luminescence. Example of formaldehyde in ground state: planar, 2 pairs of non- bonding e- on oxygen, sigma bond and pi bond (from 2py atomic orbitals of c and o) between c and o. How can formaldehyde absorb light? lowest unoccupied orbital: c=o pi antibonding orbital highest occupied orbital: nonbonding o orbital lowest-energy electronic transition: 2 possibilities, depending on spin quantum number in excited state. Singlet state: opposed spins, s1 = lowest-energy excited singlet state, triplet state, parallel spins, t1 = lowest-energy excited triplet state in general t1 has lower energy than s1. Why is formaldehyde colorless? if 397 nm absorbed: green-yellow colour probability of transition between singlet and triplet states (n(s0) . *(t1)) extremely small singlet to singlet transition (n(s0) *(s1)) much more probable (uv absorption)

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