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Notes: Rotationally resolved spectra of the 610 and 610110 band of benzene, C6H6, in a supersonic molecular beam at rotational temperatures between 8 and 50 K are reported. The spectra consist of lines of 85 MHz linewidth. An unexpectedly low saturation intensity of ≈104 W/cm2 is found for the observed one-photon transitions, and it is shown that the saturation intensity differs for different rotational lines within one vibronic band. The rovibronic line spectra are analyzed within the framework of a rigid symmetric top model and highly precise values of the rotational constants are determined. In addition, the rotationless transition frequencies ν00 are obtained with high precision. The spectrum of the 610 band shows no signs of rotational perturbations, while the 610110 band at higher vibrational excess energy shows indications of perturbations for lines with K' above 10. The decay times of single rotational states within the 6111 vibronic state are reported and no rotational dependence of the decay time is found in agreement with the statistical limit character of the interstate nonradiative process.

Notes: Me3SiCl bildet mit N-Methylimidazol (NMI) eine bei Raumtemperatur beständige, kristalline 1:1 Verbindung. Nach der Röntgenstrukturanalyse entsteht unter Spaltung der Si—Cl-Bindung und Anlagerung eines NMI-Rings eine Verbindung ionischer Struktur [Me3Si(NMI)]+Cl- 1. Die Reaktion von Me2HSiCl mit NMI (Molverhältnis 1:2) führt unter Spaltung der Si—Cl-Bindung und Koordination von zwei NMI-Ringen zur Verbindung [Me2HSi(NMI)2]+Cl- 2. Bei der analogen Umsetzung von Me2SiCl2 mit NMI (Molverhältnis 2:1) entsteht eine Verbindung, die Me2SiCl2 und NMI im Molverhältnis 1:2 enthält. Bei der Sublimation werden Einkristalle der Verbindung [Me2Si(NMI)3]2+ 2 Cl-· NMI 3 erhalten.

Notes: One of the basic prerequisites for rational and high quality production of plastic parts is a tool layout tailored to the production process. To date, both design and construction have generally been based on values acquired by experience. This first, necessitates highly qualified personnel and second, involves what is frequently time consuming and costly finishing work. Experience acquired so far with computer-aided layout of injection molds shows that even a designer with little experience reaches the target more quickly and more reliably. At the same time he is able to draw on the results of intricate calculation and simulation methods which he was unable to apply in the past for reasons of time alone. This paper thus sets out the possibilities currently open and the experience available for computer-aided mold layout. The chief point of focus here is a system for the layout of injection molds. Working on from this system, however, the potentials for computer application are presented for blow mold- and foaming mold-design. After finding the mold principle, mold layout essentially divides up into two major areas, namely dimensioning calculations (CAE) and compilation of production documents (CAD). In dimensioning, the different functional elements of the mold are calculated. The aids that have been developed and the potentials of computer-aided dimensioning are presented with examples from the fields of rheological, thermal, and mechanical mold layout. Computer-aided rheological layout divides up into two steps. The first gives information on qualitative filling behavior (filling picture, flow paths) and the second provides quantitative results (pressures, shear stresses, temperatures). Computer-aided thermal layout similarly divides up into part steps. These are a rough overall energy balance, a rough layout of the tempering system, a segmented layout, and a homogeneity check, which involves simulating the temperature conditions in the mold by means of difference methods. When it comes to mechanical layout of the mold, programs are available for deformation calculations on basic cases and these will frequently be sufficient. For more complex cases of loading and deformation, a finite element program is used. Graphic data processing units can be used to supply extra facilities - first, to provide an aid for the simulation programs in dimensioning and second, to rationalize the compilation of the production documents. An illustration of a CAD workplace is given, incorporating the necessary computer configuration and peripherals. Compiling production documents is essentially a problem of variant design. The variants in this case are the individual components of the mold and a number of standardized accessories that can be called up as “standardized components.” The mold cavity, however, always has to be a free design. All programs are dialogue driven and are in a standardized manner so that even designers with no data processing experience can use the computer as an aid. The CAD/CAE system presented duly fulfils all these requirements. It allows the designer, at a single computer work station, to carry out both simulation and dimensioning calculations, to obtain information on material data, and to compile production documents on the basis of variant and free design. This provides the designer with a readily manageable aid and makes a considerable contribution towards improving the design result. Finally, the capacity of different computer concepts and the CAE/CAD/CAM systems on the market are discussed. For the future it will be possible to establish a computer-aided link between the different areas of design, from development of the molded part, via mold design and production, through setting the processing parameters of the injection molding machine.

Notes: We observed for the first time in an optical high resolution experiment (fluorescence line narrowing) the coupling of low frequency adsorbate motions to vibronic bands of the electronic transition of quinizarin adsorbed on γ-alumina. These motions may provide an important dephasing mechanism for the electronic excitation of absorbed molecules. The increased hole width of adsorbed dyes which is several times larger than in amorphous hosts is thought to be caused by these low frequency modes.

Notes: Optical spectra of ten AX+ ions (A=B, Al, Ga, In; X=F, Cl, Br) have been observed in the visible and near UV; a total of 18 band systems were newly discovered. The emission was produced by chemiluminescent reactions A++X2 at low (2–10 eVCM) kinetic energy in a beam-gas arrangement. A position-sensitive photon counting detector with large surface area and very low dark count rate was employed, the resolution was mostly 5–50 A(ring) FWHM. Three types of band systems were observed: (1) For all AX+ combinations except BCl+ and BBr+, a very broad quasicontinuum with undulatory structure appears. On the basis of electronic state correlation arguments, photoelectron data, some ab initio calculations and, in one case, a known emission spectrum (InCl+) these band systems were identified as B 2Σ+–X 2Σ+ transitions. It is concluded that the excited state potentials are considerably displaced against the ground state, and their energetics are given. (2) For six species AX+, narrow band systems were observed in the 2500 A(ring) region. They could be clearly identified as being due to C 2Π–X 2Σ+ transitions by means of comparison with the systematics of the analogous A 2Π–X 2Σ+ transitions of the isoelectronic alkaline earth halides, by the resolved fine structure, and, in the case of AlF+, by an ab initio calculation. (3) In the GaCl+, GaBr+, and InBr+ spectra, narrow features accompany the C–X transitions. They are attributed to D 2Σ+–X 2Σ+ transitions, analogous to the alkaline earth halide B 2Σ+–X 2Σ+ band systems. Qualitative electronic state correlations are discussed, and the expected dominant configurations in different regions of the AX+ ground and excited states are given. These are in accord with recent ab initio results on AlF+.

Notes: We introduce a general Hamiltonian describing two coupled subsystems, each having a finite zero-order decay probability. With use of simple statistical assumptions on the underlying states, we derive new probability distributions of individual decay rates. We analyze the cases of weak and intermediate to strong coupling, respectively. The resulting distributions often resemble a suitable χ2 distribution, but do not belong to that class of functions. An interpretation of decay rates in terms of a χ2 model thus may lead to wrong conclusions. As a concrete realization, we study a Hamiltonian describing the non-Born–Oppenheimer coupling of two electronic states via the nuclear motion. The model is applied to the calculation of absorption-type spectra of NO2 and C2H+4. We investigate statistical properties of energy levels, line intensities, and decay rates. For NO2, we find from all statistics a completely irregular behavior, consistent with random matrix predictions and demonstrating the strong mixing of zero-order states due to the nonadiabatic coupling. For C2H+4, all statistics exhibit characteristic deviations from the irregular limit that can be given a consistent interpretation.

Notes: The glass forming molecular liquid ortho-terphenyl has been investigated by 2H-NMR techniques providing spin-relaxation times (T1, T2), and spin-alignment data which yield information on the time scale and geometry of ultra-slow molecular reorientation. The main results are as follows: The primary glass transition (α process) is characterized by rotational molecular jumps with a jump size distribution weighted in favor of large jump angles, and by a distribution of correlation times. In addition intramolecular flip–flop jumps of the lateral phenyl rings are found which do not take part in the α process. Apart from this (secondary) intramolecular dynamics no residual small angle reorientation persists below Tg on the time scale (10−4 to 102 s) of the spin-alignment experiment.

Notes: A new molecular beam color center laser spectrometer, which can be tuned single mode under computer control around 1.5 μm, has been used to obtain the sub-Doppler, rotationally resolved, first overtone spectrum of the nonbonded C–H stretch vibration of the HCN dimer. As for the corresponding fundamental vibration, the linewidth is instrument limited, posing a minimum limit of 11 ns to the lifetime of the excited complex.