Anisotropy of Light Emission and Absorption by Porphin Molecules in n-Octane Single Crystals

Abstract

Detailed information on vibrational structure of electronic transitions in molecules is necessary for the elucidation of the properties of excited electronic states, for the understanding of characteristics of polarized luminescence, circular dichroism and magnetic circular dichroism, sometimes also for solving problems of vibrational spectroscopy. The Shpolsky method of quasi-line spectra^I makes it possible to obtain data on frequencies of vibrations and their activity in vibronic spectra of fluorescence and absorption. In principle, the method enables also determination of polarization of separate vibronic transitions, but monocrystalline samples are necessary for this purpose. The first investigations of quasiline spectra of monocrystalline samples (stilbene in n-octane) were carried out by Malykhina and Shpak².