Configuration interaction study of the electronic spectrum of methinophosphide, HCP

Abstract

Ab initio configuration interaction (CI) studies were performed on low-lying linear and nonlinear states of methinophosphide (HCP), using large basis sets with polarization and s, p Rydberg functions, and extensive multireference CI wave functions. Potential curves for linear states of HCP as functions of RCP and RCH and for nonlinear states as functions of αHCP were obtained, from which spectroscopic constants Te, Re, and ωe were evaluated. For the X1Σ+ ground state, the energy of dissociation into H + CP and the dipole moment were also calculated. The assignment of states based on the observed spectrum had to be revised in several instances. The ã state remained 13Σ+ (or 13A′), but the [Formula: see text] state became 13A″, the [Formula: see text] state, 13Δ, the à and [Formula: see text] states remained 11A″ and 21A′, respectively, [Formula: see text] was not seen as a seperate state, and [Formula: see text] became 13Σ−. In the energy range from 0 to 8 eV, 22 linear and 11 nonlinear stable states were found. Nonlinear states were stabilized for excitations from π(9a′, 2a″) into the in-plane component of π*, 10a′. Several doubly excited states of the type π2 → π*2 were bound, lying at relatively small excitation energies.