Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 321, Issue -, Pages 28-49Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2016.02.004
Keywords
Vibrations; Ground state; Substituted benzenes
Funding
- EPSRC [EP/L021366/1]
- University of Nottingham
- EPSRC [EP/L021366/1, EP/J003921/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J003921/1, EP/L021366/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We give a description of the phenyl-ring-localized vibrational modes of the ground states of the para-disubstituted benzene molecules including both symmetric and asymmetric cases. In line with others, we quickly conclude that the use of Wilson mode labels is misleading and ambiguous; we conclude the same regarding the related ones of Varsanyi. Instead we label the modes consistently based upon the Mulliken (Herzberg) method for the modes of para-difluorobenzene (pDFB). Since we wish the labelling scheme to cover both symmetrically- and asymmetrically-substituted molecules, we apply the Mulliken labelling under C-2v symmetry. By studying the variation of the vibrational wavenumbers with mass of the substituent, we are able to identify the corresponding modes across a wide range of molecules and hence provide consistent assignments. Particularly interesting are pairs of vibrations that evolve from in- and out-of-phase motions in pDFB to more localized modes in asymmetric molecules. We consider the para isomers of the following: the symmetric dihalobenzenes, xylene, hydroquinone, the asymmetric dihalobenzenes, halotoluenes, halophenols and cresol. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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