Geometries of the ground and first excited triplet states of thioformaldehyde

Abstract

The geometries of the S0 and T1 states of thioformaldehyde are determined by ab initio SCF calculations with Gaussian basis sets ranging from minimal to double ζ plus both diffuse and polarization functions. The ground state geometries are all in reasonable agreement with experiment but for the n → π* triplet state split valence or double ζ basis sets yield unreasonably long CS bond distances.