Entatic state principle

Much of the work on solvation effects has concentrated on modeling the shift of the centre of an electronic absorption or emission band that occurs on solvation, i.e.. the solvatochromic shift. According to the Franck-Condon principle the centre of such a band corresponds to the vertical excitation energy (from an initial to final electronic state) at a fixed nuclear geometry. Solvation of a chromophore thus implies that while the system in its initial electronic state is in equilibrium with its environment, it is not so in its vertically excited state. On excitation of the solute the electronic polarization of the solvent is assumed to relax instantaneously while the ori-entational/distortional polarization is thought of as remaining frozen, a view which may be somewhat simplistic. Within the reaction-field model application of the above theory to a solvated dipole results in a solvent shift of... 

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