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Measurement of Ultrafast Vibrational Coherences in Polyatomic Radical Cations with Strong-Field Adiabatic Ionization
Published on: August 6, 2018
Jet-Cooled Multiphoton Ionization Spectroscopy of the iso-Butanal 3s<--n Rydberg Transition
G. F. Metha1, M. A. Buntine, A. J. Bradley
1Department of Chemistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia
Abstract:
We report the results of a study on the vibrational structure in the (n, 3s) Rydberg state of iso-butanal, carried out via 2+1 multiphoton ionization spectroscopy in a supersonic expansion. Spectra were recorded for both the normal species, (CH(3))(2)CHCHO, and the deuterated isotopomer, (CH(3))(2)CDCHO. The spectra show a complicated vibrational pattern attributable to the gauche (C(1)) conformer which is known to be 250 cm(-1) lower in energy than the more symmetric trans (C(s)) conformer. The spectra are dominated by the low-frequency formyl torsion which appears in combination with the two methyl torsions (in-phase and out-of-phase) and with several skeletal modes. Vibrational assignments have been aided by ab initio calculations of the (n, 3s) Rydberg state. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
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