à 1B2–X̃ 1A1 26v0 transitions of 18O‐enriched tropolone

Autor: Robert W. Field, Martin A. Hunter, Richard L. Redington, Theresa E. Redington
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: The Journal of Chemical Physics. 92:6456-6462
ISSN: 1089-7690
0021-9606
DOI: 10.1063/1.458325
Popis: Laser excitation spectra with v=0, 2, 4, and 6 in the A 1B2–X 1A1 26v0 progression of jet‐cooled 18O/16O isotopomers of tropolone are reported. The isotope shift for ν26, an out‐of‐plane deformation mode at 39 cm−1 in the A state, is 2% for tropolone‐18O18O. This large 18O isotope effect indicates that Q26 for tropolone resembles the analogous normal mode of tropone, which is a ring deformation towards the boat conformation of 2, 4, 6‐cycloheptatriene accompanied by a large O atom displacement. Tunneling by tropolone in the A state is quenched by exciting the 26v overtone states and a mechanism for this quenching is proposed in terms of the indicated normal coordinate. Tunneling splittings are
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