Polarized absorption spectra of naphthalene and acenaphthene in stretched PVA sheets

Abstract

AbstractPolarized absorption spectra of naphthalene and acenaphthene were measured in stretched PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) sheets below 46.5 kK, and the polarization directions of the electronic transitions of the compounds were determined experimentally: It has been confirmed that naphthalene has four electronic transitions in the near ultraviolet region at 31.3 kK, 34.7 kK, 44.6 kK and 45.5 kK, and these transitions are polarized along the x‐ (the long axis of the molecule), y‐ (the short axis), x‐ and y‐axis, respectively. In the case of acenaphthene, an additional y‐axis polarized electronic transition, corresponding to the forbidden transition (1 Ag ‐1Ag) of naphthalene, was found apparently at 41 kK.