Structure of the naphthalene dimer from rare gas tagging

Excitation spectra of naphthalene dimer-argonn (n = 1-3) clusters are obtained by resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization time-of-flight mass spectroscopy. The spectra are generally independent of the number of attached argon atoms and reveal sharp structures which are fitted by superimposing independent monomer spectra. It is concluded that the rare-gas tagging technique reveals the presence of a T-shaped naphthalene dimer chromophore in the molecular beam.