Isotopic Dependence of the Hydrogen-Transfer-Triggered Methyl-Group Rotation in Deuterated 5-Methyltropolone.

Autor: Ilyushin VV; Institute of Radio Astronomy of NASU, Mystetstv 4, 61002 Kharkov, Ukraine.; Quantum Radiophysics Department of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Svobody Square 4, 61022, Kharkov, Ukraine., Johnson AM; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA., Hohl J; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA., Cloessner EA; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA., Lovas FJ; Sensor Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8441, USA., Lavrich RJ; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of molecular spectroscopy [J Mol Spectrosc] 2018; Vol. 343.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2017.09.004
Abstrakt: We present here the first experimental study of the microwave spectrum of deuterated 5-methyltropolone, a molecule which exhibits two large-amplitude motions: an intramolecular hydrogen transfer (deuterium transfer in the current case of deuterated 5-methyltropolone) and a methyl torsion. The main goal of this study was to get information on the isotopic dependence of the main tunneling parameters of 5-methyltropolone in the framework of the two dimensional tunneling formalism, which previously has shown some counterintuitive results for isotopic dependence of tunneling parameters in 2-methylmalonaldehyde. Measurements were carried out by Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy in the 9 GHz to 26 GHz frequency range. Theoretical analysis was carried out using a tunneling-rotational Hamiltonian based on a G 12 m extended-group-theory formalism. Our global fit of 384 transitions to 17 molecular parameters gave a weighted root-mean-square deviation of 0.8. The current study on the isotopic dependence of the main tunneling parameters in 5-methyltropolone supports the assumption of possible "leakage" between tunneling parameters in the two-dimensional tunneling formalism in use.
Databáze: MEDLINE