Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are common atmospheric pollutants, and they are also ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. Here, we report the study of a complex O-containing PAH anion, the deprotonated 2-hydroxytriphenylene (2-OtPh-), using high-resolution photoelectron imaging and photodetachment spectroscopy of cryogenically cooled anions. Vibrationally resolved photoelectron spectra yield the electron affinity of the 2-OtPh radical as 2.629(1) eV and several vibrational frequencies for its ground electronic state. Photodetachment spectroscopy reveals bound valence excited electronic states for the 2-OtPh- anion, with unprecedentedly rich vibronic features. Evidence is presented for a low-lying triplet state (T1) and two singlet states (S1 and S2) below the detachment threshold. Single-color resonant two-photon photoelectron spectroscopy uncovers rich photophysics for the 2-OtPh- anion, including vibrational relaxation in S1, internal conversion to the ground state of 2-OtPh-, intersystem crossing from S2 to T1, and a long-lived autodetaching shape resonance about 1.3 eV above the detachment threshold. The rich electronic structure and photophysics afforded by the current study suggest that 2-OtPh- would be an interesting system for pump-probe experiments to unravel the dynamics of the excited states of this complex PAH anion.
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