Molecular Rydberg transitions: The lowest-energy Rydberg transitions of s-type in CH3X and CD3X,X = Cl,Br, and I

The absorption spectra associated with transitions to the lowest-energy s-type Rydberg states of CH₃X and CD₃X, X = Cl, Br, and I, have been measured and analyzed. The spectra of the bromides and iodides consist, individually, of four electronic origins of s-excitation type. The vibrational frequency of a given normal mode is more or less identical in all four excited states of any one molecule; and the excited state/ground state ratios of the frequencies of any given normal vibrational mode are essentially identical for all four molecules (i.e., for 16 states, four for each of two bromides and two iodides). The spectra of the chlorides are amenable to a number of different vibronic analyses, none of them unique; these analyses are discussed.