The two-dimensional anharmonic oscillator III: the CCC bending mode of C3O2

Duckett, J. A., Mills, I. and Robiette, A. G. (1976) The two-dimensional anharmonic oscillator III: the CCC bending mode of C3O2. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 63 (2). pp. 249-264. ISSN 0022-2852 doi: 10.1016/0022-2852(76)90010-2

Abstract/Summary

Newly observed data on the rotational constants of carbon suboxide in excited vibrational states of the low-wavenumber bending vibration ν7 have been successfully interpreted in terms of the two-dimensional anharmonic oscillator wavefunctions associated with this vibration. By combining these results with published infrared and Raman spectra the vibrational assignment has been extended and a refined bending potential for ν7 has been derived: this has a minimum at a bending angle of about 24° at the central C atom, with an energy maximum at the linear configuration some 23 cm−1 above the minimum. From similar data on the combination and hot bands of ν7 with ν4 (1587 cm−1) and ν2 (786 cm−1) the effective ν7 bending potential has also been determined in the one-quantum excited states of ν4 and ν2. The effective ν7 potential shows significant changes from the ground vibrational state; the central hump in the ν7 potential surface is increased to about 50 cm−1 in the v4 = 1 state, and decreased to about 1 cm−1 in the v2 = 1 state. In the light of these results vibrational assignments are suggested for most of the observed bands in the infrared and Raman spectra of C3O2.

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Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
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