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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 113, Issue 26, Pages 7294-7303Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp810687t
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- National Science Foundation
- CIRES
- American Chemical Society
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Pyruvic acid (CH3COCOOH) is an important keto acid present in the atmosphere. In this study, the vibrational spectroscopy of gas-phase pyruvic acid has been investigated with special emphasis on the overtone transitions of the OH-stretch, with Delta upsilon(OH) = 2, 4, 5. Assignments were made to fundamental and combination bands in the mid-IR. The two lowest energy rotational conformers of pyruvic acid are clearly observed in the spectrum. The lowest energy conformer possesses an intramolecular hydrogen bond, while the next lowest rotational conformer does not. This difference is clearly seen in the spectra of the OH vibrational overtone transitions, and it is reflected in the anharmonicities of the OH-stretching modes for each conformer. The spectra of the OH-stretching vibration for both conformers were investigated to establish the effect of the hydrogen bond on frequency, intensity, and line width.
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