Abstract: | An algorithm is employed to elucidate molecular bond polarizabilities of ethylene thiourea including their temporal relaxation from Raman intensities, which provide much information concerning the electronic distribution of nonresonant Raman excited virtual states. The main character of the excited states of ethylene thiourea is that the excited electrons tend to flow to the molecular periphery because of electronic repulsion. It is noted that the bond electronic densities of the ground state can be mapped out by the bond polarizabilities at the final stage of relaxation. The relaxation time is shown to be proportional to the wavelength of the exciting light in agreement with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, showing that the excitations are indeed not the stationary eigenstates. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |