1938/10/01 by M. Goeppert-Mayer, A. L. Sklar · 500 citations
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Spectroscopy and Laser Applications #Excited state #Benzene #Atomic orbital #Atomic physics #Carbon fibers #Molecular orbital #Chemistry #Computational chemistry #Materials science #Molecule #Physics #Electron #Quantum mechanics #Organic chemistry
paper · doi:10.1063/1.1750138
published in The Journal of Chemical Physics 6(10), 645-652 (American Institute of Physics)
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The energy of the first excited levels of benzene is calculated by the method of antisymmetrized molecular orbitals. The results predict two weak bands, due to forbidden electronic transitions, at λ = 2500 and λ = 2100 and a strong band at λ = 1500. No empirical data except the carbon-carbon distance in benzene were used.