In:
The Journal of Chemical Physics, AIP Publishing, Vol. 124, No. 18 ( 2006-05-14)
Abstract:
The spectrum of methylene in the 1.3–1.4 and 0.89–0.94μm wavelength regions has been recorded in absorption using frequency-modulated cw diode and Ti:sapphire laser sources. The spectral lines have Doppler-limited resolution and have been assigned to bands in the b̃B11←ãA11 electronic spectrum of the radical. In three of the four bands studied, the lower state is the bend excited, υ2″=1, level of the ã state and two of the upper levels lie below the energy of the degenerate linear configuration of the b̃∕ã pair. Together with previously measured data pertaining to υ2″=1, the data have been used to refine the precision of the experimentally determined rotational structure in this level. Although several K″=1 levels do show shifts of more than 0.1–0.2cm−1, multiple strong perturbations due to near-resonant background X̃B13 rovibrational levels, such as are known to occur in the ãA11, υ2″=0 level have not been found in υ2″=1. Absorption lines due to the predominantly triplet X̃(040) 414 level, responsible for most of the perturbation of ã(010) 515, have been identified in the spectra. The data also fix the energies of the b̃(0,0,0)2, ã(0,7,0)1, b̃(0,2,0)3, and ã(0,10,0)2 upper vibronic levels, where the numbers in parentheses are the vibrational quantum numbers with superscript K, the projection of the total angular momentum on the a-inertial axis.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0021-9606
,
1089-7690
Language:
English
Publisher:
AIP Publishing
Publication Date:
2006
detail.hit.zdb_id:
3113-6
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1473050-9
Permalink