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Ultrafast Time-resolved Near-IR Stimulated Raman Measurements of Functional π-conjugate Systems
Published on: February 10, 2020
Theoretical study of doubly resonant IR-UV hyper-Raman scattering
Ren-hui Zheng1, Wen-mei Wei, Yuan-yuan Sun
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Theoretically we study the doubly resonant IR-UV hyper-Raman scattering where the IR light is resonant to the vibrational transition and the UV/visible light is resonant to the electronic transition between the ground and excited states. Based on the Taylor expansion of the electric transition dipole moments with respect to the normal coordinates, we have derived the expressions for the hyper-Raman A, B, and C terms. Using quantum chemistry calculations, we have estimated the magnitudes for all the three terms. Due to double resonance, contributions from all the three terms should be detectable in experiments.
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