Electronic energy singlet ground state

If all spins ( 1/2) in an atom or molecule are paired (equal numbers of spin +1/2 and -1/2), the total spin must be zero, and that state is described as a singlet (total spin, S = 0 and the state is described by the term 2S + 1 = 1). When a singlet ground-state atom or molecule absorbs a photon, a valence electron of spin 1/2 moves to a higher energy level but maintains the same... 

In the case of the hydrogen molecule-ion H2" ", we defined certain integrals Saa, Taa, Tab, Labra- The electronic part of the energy appropriate to the Heitler-London (singlet) ground-state wavefunction, after doing the integrations... 

Phosphinidenes have either a singlet ground state with two lone pairs and an empty p-orbital on the phosphorus atom or a triplet ground state in which the phosphorus has instead one lone pair and two singly occupied p-orbitals. Not surprisingly, the electronic preference, i.e., the singlet-triplet energy gap (AEst) and thus the stabUity and reactivity of a phosphinidene, is determined by its substituent. 

UV-vis spectra of matrix-isolated intermediates are not so informative as matrix IR spectra. As a rule, an assignment of the UV spectrum to any intermediate follows after the identification of the latter by IR or esr spectroscopy. However, UV-vis spectra may sometimes be especially useful. It is well known, for example, that the energy of electronic transitions in singlet ground-state carbenes differs from that of the triplet species. In this way UV spectroscopy allows one to identify the ground state of the intermediate stabilized in the matrix in particular cases. This will be exemplified below. 

Fig. 2 Jablonski energy level diagram illustrating possible transitions, where solid lines represent absorption processes and dotted lines represent scattering processes. Key A, IR absorption B, near-IR absorption of an overtone C, Rayleigh scattering D, Stokes Raman transition and E, anti-Stokes Raman transition. S0 is the singlet ground state, S, the lowest singlet excited state, and v represents vibrational energy levels within each electronic state.

The primary process taking place in a PE spectrometer is best viewed as a reaction in which a closed-shell diene or polyene M in its electronic (singlet) ground state 1 >Po reacts with a photon of energy hv to yield a radical cation M+ in one of its electronic doublet states 2excess energy kinj ... 

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