Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.497, No.4-6, 163-167, 2010
Vibrationally resolved emission of thiophosgene dimer
During a study of thiophosgene electronic spectra, Fujiwara and co-workers observed a broad electronic transition peaked at 37 000 cm (1), attributed to thiophosgene dimer. Our dispersed fluorescence spectra of a thiophosgene molecular beam excited at 36 000 cm (1) reveal several vibrational modes too low in frequency for thiophosgene. We assign them to modes of thiophosgene dimer or their combination bands. MP2 calculations support the vibrational assignment. TD-DFT, CASSCF, and coupled cluster calculations suggest that the bright electronic state of thiophosgene dimer is the B-2u symmetry fifth excited singlet state. Two additional transitions are assigned to a thiophosgene synthesis impurity, trichloromethanesulfenyl chloride.