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Nuclear hyperfine interaction of rotating hydrogen: a spectroscopic investigation of hydrogen-OCS van der Waals
Zhenhong Yu1, Kelly J Higgins, William Klemperer
1Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Abstract:
The rotational spectra of five weakly bonded hydrogen-OCS complexes (paraH(2), orthoH(2), HD, orthoD(2), and paraD(2)) are measured. Hyperfine structure is resolved and analyzed in all except the complex with paraH(2), where I=0. For the two j=1 species, orthoH(2)-OCS and paraD(2)-OCS, nuclear hyperfine coupling constants are found to be d(a)=21.2(2) and 8.4(2) kHz, respectively, indicative of nearly free uniaxial rotation of the hydrogen around the b-inertial axis. Similar analyses for HD-OCS and orthoD(2)-OCS yield the quadrupole coupling constants eqQ(a)=16(2) and 30(2) kHz, respectively, showing that the internal rotational motions of HD and orthoD(2) in the complex are slightly hindered producing a small nonspherical distribution. For orthoD(2)-OCS, the observed hyperfine structure indicates that the nuclear spin states I=0 and 2 are strongly coupled in the rotation of the complex.
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