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Fourier transform infrared isotopic study of SiC5: identification of the ν(4)(σ) mode
T H Lê1, C M L Rittby1, W R M Graham1
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 76129, USA.
Abstract:
SiC5 in its (3)Σ ground state has been produced by trapping the products from the laser evaporation of a sintered silicon-carbon rod in solid Ar. For the first time a vibrational fundamental has been measured, the ν4(σ) asymmetric stretch at 936.9 ± 0.2 cm(-1). Comparison of observed (13)C and (29,30)Si isotopic shifts with the predictions of DFT-B3LYP/cc-pVDZ calculations confirms the identification.
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