Demonstrates how naphthalene excimers form in solutions and on surfaces, highlighting their significance in spectroscopy.
Due to dispersion forces, many aromatic molecules in concentrated solutions and on surfaces will form excimers when electronically excited. Excimers are dissociated in the ground state, and spectrally characterized by red-shifted, broad and featureless emission. Since these excimers are easily generated in a variety of aromatic molecules, the addition of an assignment involving the naphthalene excimer in the physical chemistry laboratory would introduce students to this very important species in condensed phase spectroscopy.
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