“…In 2005 Tokaryk, Adam, and Hopkins fully characterized the 0 0 0 and 3 1 0 bands of this transition in MgCCH [11] and Dick et al reported the high-resolution analysis of the analogous bands in SrCCH [12]. In all of these radicals, the e B 2 R þ -e X 2 R þ transition between the second excited state and the ground state is allowed, but efforts to detect this transition in CaCCH and SrCCH via laserinduced fluorescence were unsuccessful [6,12].…”