Rewriting the story of excimer formation in liquid benzene: Supplemental Information E. Siva Subramaniam Iyer a , Arman Sadybekov b , Oleg Lioubashevski a , Anna I. Krylov b , and Sanford Ruhman *a . a Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Israel. b Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, California, CA 90089-0482, U.S.A. January 31, 2017 1 Experimental -0.01 0.00 0.01 0.02 -0.010 -0.005 0.000 400 500 600 700 -0.010 -0.005 0.000 0fs 50fs 100fs 200fs 300fs 400fs 500fs ΔA 500fs 700fs 1ps 5ps 10ps 25ps 15ps 20ps Wavelength/nm 25ps 40ps 70ps 100ps -0.04 -0.02 0.00 0.02 0.04 0.06 -0.02 -0.01 0.00 400 500 600 700 -0.009 -0.006 -0.003 0.000 0 50fs 100fs 200fs 300fs 400fs 500fs ΔA 500fs 700fs 1ps 5ps 10ps 25ps Wavelength/nm 25ps 40ps 70ps 100ps Figure S1: Transient absorption spectrum of benzene excimer in VH (left) and VV (right) configurations between the pump and probe in the three pulse experiments. 1