Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.342, No.5-6, 625-630, 2001
Double charge transfer spectroscopy of acetylene dication C2H22+ at vibrational resolution
We have observed a vibrational progression of C2H22+ with double charge transfer (DCT) spectroscopy. From an exploratory calculation, the progression is assigned to the symmetric C-C stretching mode of the lowest singlet (1)Delta (g) state with linear geometry. The observed structure is well reproduced with the theoretical Franck-Condon (FC) factors obtained from the potential curves of the (1)A(g) and first-excited (1)Sigma (+)(g) states along the normal C-C stretching coordinate. Multi-reference CI calculations reveal a predominant contribution of the (1)Delta (g) state. These results suggest that the DCT process can probe dicationic states of polyatomic molecules like acetylene with resort to the FC principle.