Millimetre-wave spectrum of anti-13C1 and 13C2 isotopologues of ethanol

The rotational spectra of the two monosubstituted C-13 isotopologues of the anti conformer of ethanol have been measured between 80-800 GHz using three different spectrometers at the Cologne Laboratory Astrophysics group. The dataset was constrained for fitting with a standard Watson-S reduction Hamiltonian by rejecting transitions from high-lying states showing significant perturbation with the gauche states and by averaging some small methyl torsional splits. This treatment is compatible with the needs for a first astrophysical research for which an appropriate set of predictions is given. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.