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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 657-665Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0cp05432a
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- Australian Research Council through the Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities scheme [LE170100020]
- Australian Government
- Australian Research Council [LE170100020] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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The terahertz (THz) spectrum of DL-alanine has been measured for the first time at cryogenic temperatures and with a pure sample. Temperature dependent spectra revealed redshifting, with increasing temperature, for the modes. The study suggests that molecular vibrations of DL-alanine are influenced by temperature and exhibit frequency shifts.
The terahertz (THz) spectrum of DL-alanine has been measured for the first time at cryogenic temperatures and with a pure sample. Several sharp absorptions are observed, over a wide frequency range (0.8-4.8 THz), at 8 K. The sample structure and purity were confirmed with both Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. Temperature dependent spectra revealed redshifting, with increasing temperature, for all modes except one at 2.70 THz. This mode exhibits blueshifting until approximate to 120 K, where it starts to redshift. A Bose-Einstein distribution has been used to model the frequency shift with temperature for the four lowest energy modes. Strong correlations between the fits and data indicate that these modes are caused by phonon excitation in an anharmonic potential. Density functional theory has also been used to identify the origin of these low frequency modes. They are attributed to large scale molecular vibrations.
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