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Structural characterization of the NO(X2Π)-N2O complex with mid-infrared laser absorption spectroscopy and quantum
Zhuang Liu1, Xiang Li1, Murong Ge1
1College of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Abstract:
Both positive and negative ions of N3O2 have been observed in various experiments. The neutral N3O2 was predicted to exist either as a weakly bound NO·N2O complex or a covalent molecule. The rovibrational spectrum of the NO(X2Π)-N2O complex has been measured for the first time in the 5.3 µm region using distributed quantum cascade lasers to probe the direct absorption in a slit-jet supersonic expansion. The observed spectrum is analyzed with a semi-rigid asymmetric rotor Hamiltonian for a planar open-shell complex, giving a bent geometry with an a-axis-NO angle of about 21.9°. The vibrationally averaged 2A'-2A″ energy separation is determined to be ε = 144.56(95) cm-1 for the ground state, indicating that the electronic orbital angular momentum is partially quenched upon complexation. Geometry optimizations of the complex restricted to a planar configuration at the RCCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory show that the 2A″ state is more stable than the 2A' state by about 110 cm-1 and the N atom of NO points to the central N atom of N2O at the minimum of the 2A″ state.
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