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Yuna Koizumi1, Christophe Jouvet, Tsuji Norihiro
1Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.
Abstract:
The S(1)-S(0) electronic spectra of 7-azaindole-(NH(3))(n) clusters (n=1-3) were measured by mass-selected two-color resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization spectroscopy. The laser-induced fluorescence spectrum obtained by monitoring the UV fluorescence shows well-structured vibrational bands for the monomer and 7-azaindole-(NH(3))(1,2) clusters, while no signals appear for the 7-azaindole-(NH(3))(3) cluster. The action spectrum obtained by monitoring visible emission shows no signal for all species, which suggests little reactivity for excited-state proton/hydrogen transfer. From the observed and calculated IR spectra, the geometry of 7-azaindole-(NH(3))(1,2) was concluded to be a hydrogen-bonded bridge form, which is similar to the photochemically reactive 7-hydroxyquinoline-(NH(3))(3) cluster. The difference in the photochemical reactivity is discussed on the basis of excited-state quantum chemical calculations.
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