Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009pccp...11x4458h&link_type=abstract
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 11, p. 4458-4464
Physics
Chemical Physics
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon, Pah, Diffuse Interstellar Bands, Density Functional Theory, Optical Spectroscopy, Hydrogen, Protonated, Cation
Scientific paper
We report the application of time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) to the calculation of electronic spectra of hydrogenated protonated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules. The hydrogen atoms lie on the periphery of the PAH structure and those considered here may be written Hn-HPAH+, where n is even. It is found, in common with protonated PAH molecules, HPAH+, that some of the electronic transitions fall in the visible spectral region. The implications of the results are discussed in the context of the long-standing enigmatic astronomical problem of the diffuse interstellar absorption bands.
Hammonds M.
Pathak Anirban
Sarre Peter J.
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