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Approximate Selection Rules for | K | = 1-0 and 1-1 Tunneling-Rotation Transitions in the Methanol Dimer
Published
Author(s)
N Ohashi, Jon T. Hougen
Abstract
Approximate K = 0 and |K| = 1 tunneling-rotation eigenfunctions for the four A, four E, and one G symmetry species present in the methanol dimer, derived from molecular parameters obtained previously from a least squares fit to transition frequencies involving K = 0 and 1 levels, are used to clarify some apparent contradictions associated with traditional b-type and c-type transition designations in the E and G tunneling-rotational states of this dimer. These approximate eigenfunctions also predict strong and weak line intensities which are consistent with the pattern of strong a-type, b-type, and c-type transitions observed, thus supporting our previous separate-K-state analysis based only on energy level positions. Some of the predicted weaker a-type transitions should be experimentally observable with somewhat more signal averaging.
Citation
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy
Volume
203
Issue
No. 1
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
a-type, b-type and c-type transitions, G<sub>36</sub> molecular symmetry group, intensities, methanol dimer, transition moment direction, tunneling-rotation eigenfunctions
Citation
Ohashi, N.
and Hougen, J.
(2000),
Approximate Selection Rules for | K | = 1-0 and 1-1 Tunneling-Rotation Transitions in the Methanol Dimer, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy
(Accessed November 10, 2024)