Vibrational spectra of indene. Part 4. Calibration, assignment, and ideal-gas thermodynamics

Autor: T.D Klots
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 51:2307-2324
ISSN: 1386-1425
DOI: 10.1016/0584-8539(95)01431-4
Popis: The vibrational spectra of indene have been examined in the vapor and the liquid state using infrared and Raman spectroscopy. Wavenumbers of the liquid spectra are measured to 0.1 cm −1 to re-examine the potential of indene as a calibration molecule. An assignment for its normal modes of vibration is made considering vapor band shapes, polarization ratios and calculated frequencies from a scaling procedure of the indene AM1 force field. An AM1 analysis of the cyclopentadiene vibrations is performed to obtain the scale factors for the constituent five-membered ring. The root-mean standard deviation of the calculated relative to the observed frequencies is 11 cm −1 for the planar modes and 16 cm −1 for the nonplanar modes. The potential energy distribution for the nonplanar modes from a refinement calculation is discussed. Ideal-gas thermodynamic functions are evaluated using the vapor phase vibrational wavenumbers and the previously reported moments-of-inertia. The spectroscopic ideal-gas entropy exceeds that determined from calorimetry by ≈ 0.95 R (R = 8.31451 J K −1 mol −1 ) from 300 to 500 K, indicating that the crystal most probably contains some residual disorder at 0 K.
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