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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 20, Issue 12, Pages 8241-8246Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7cp08412a
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- Danish Council for Independent Research's Sapere Aude Programme [12-125248]
- Synchrotron SOLEIL [20160901]
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The high-resolution terahertz absorption spectrum of the large-amplitude intermolecular donor librational band 18 of the homodimer (HCN)(2) has been recorded by means of long-path static gas-phase Fourier transform spectroscopy at 207 K employing a highly brilliant electron storage ring source. The rovibrational structure of the 18 band has the typical appearance of a perpendicular type band of a sigma- transition for a linear polyatomic molecule. The generated terahertz spectrum is analyzed employing a standard semi-rigid linear molecule Hamiltonian, yielding a band origin (0) of 119.11526(60) cm(-1) together with values for the excited state rotational constant B, the excited state quartic centrifugal distortion constant D-J and the l-type doubling constant q for the degenerate state associated with the 18 mode. The until now missing donor librational band origin enables the determination of an accurate experimental value for the vibrational zero-point energy of 2.50 +/- 0.05 kJ mol(-1) arising from the entire class of large-amplitude intermolecular modes. The spectroscopic findings are complemented by CCSD(T)-F12b/aug-cc-pV5Z (electronic energies) and CCSD(T)-F12b/aug-cc-pVQZ (force fields) electronic structure calculations, providing a (semi)-experimental value of 17.20 +/- 0.20 kJ mol(-1) for the dissociation energy D-0 of this strictly linear weak intermolecular CHN hydrogen bond.
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