Model potentials and the optical spectra of solvated electrons

Abstract

Optical absorption spectra attributed to solvated electrons in ammonia, water, ethylenediamine and methanol are fitted by calculated photoejection spectra using a number of different model potentials. Theoretical spectra resulting from several spherically symmetric potentials yield excellent and in some cases indistinguishable representations of the experimental spectra. As a result, the optical spectra data are shown to provide only an insufficient basis for distinguishing between these different model potentials.