The analyses of fluorescence excitation and dispersed fluorescence spectra of jet‐cooled xanthene indicate that the equilibrium conformation of the molecule is nonplanar in the ground state and planar in the lowest excited singlet state. The estimated ground‐state inversion barrier is 50 cm−1.
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