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Dahlmann F, Dinu DF, Jusko P, Lochmann C, Gstir T, Marimuthu AN, Liedl KR, Brünken S, Wester R. Vibrational Predissociation Spectra of C 2 N - and C 3 N - : Bending and Stretching Vibrations. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202300262. [PMID: 37199236 PMCID: PMC10962567 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 05/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
We present infrared predissociation spectra of C2 N- (H2 ) and C 3 N- (H2 ) in the 300-1850 cm-1 range. Measurements were performed using the FELion cryogenic ion trap end user station at the Free Electron Lasers for Infrared eXperiments (FELIX) laboratory. For C2 N- (H2 ), we detected the CCN bending and CC-N stretching vibrations. For the C3 N- (H2 ) system, we detected the CCN bending, the CC-CN stretching, and multiple overtones and/or combination bands. The assignment and interpretation of the presented experimental spectra is validated by calculations of anharmonic spectra within the vibrational configuration interaction (VCI) approach, based on potential energy surfaces calculated at explicitly correlated coupled cluster theory (CCSD(T)-F12/cc-pVTZ-F12). The H2 tag acts as an innocent spectator, not significantly affecting the C2,3 N- bending and stretching mode positions. The recorded infrared predissociation spectra can thus be used as a proxy for the vibrational spectra of the bare anions.
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- Franziska Dahlmann
- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte PhysikUniversität InnsbruckTechnikerstraße 256020InnsbruckAustria
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- Department of GeneralInorganic and Theoretical ChemistryUniversität InnsbruckInnrain 80/826020InnsbruckAustria
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- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial PhysicsGießenbachstraße 185748GarchingGermany
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte PhysikUniversität InnsbruckTechnikerstraße 256020InnsbruckAustria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte PhysikUniversität InnsbruckTechnikerstraße 256020InnsbruckAustria
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- Radboud UniversityInstitute for Molecules and MaterialsFELIX LaboratoryToernooiveld 76525EDNijmegen, theNetherlands
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- Department of GeneralInorganic and Theoretical ChemistryUniversität InnsbruckInnrain 80/826020InnsbruckAustria
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- Radboud UniversityInstitute for Molecules and MaterialsFELIX LaboratoryToernooiveld 76525EDNijmegen, theNetherlands
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte PhysikUniversität InnsbruckTechnikerstraße 256020InnsbruckAustria
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Dahlmann F, Jusko P, Lara-Moreno M, Halvick P, Marimuthu AN, Michaelsen T, Wild R, Geistlinger K, Schlemmer S, Stoecklin T, Wester R, Brünken S. Predissociation spectroscopy of cold CN −H 2 and CN −D 2. Mol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2022.2085204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Franziska Dahlmann
- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
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- Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Rocha CMR, Linnartz H. High-level ab initio quartic force fields and spectroscopic characterization of C 2N . Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:26227-26240. [PMID: 34787132 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03505c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
While it is now well established that large carbon chain species and radiative electron attachment (REA) are key ingredients triggering interstellar anion chemistry, the role played by smaller molecular anions, for which REA appears to be an unlikely formation pathway, is as yet elusive. Advancing this research undoubtedly requires the knowledge (and modeling) of their astronomical abundances which, for the case of C2N-, is largely hindered by a lack of accurate spectroscopic signatures. In this work, we provide such data for both ground -CCN-(3Σ-) and low-lying c-CNC-(1A1) isomers and their singly-substituted isotopologues by means of state-of-the-art rovibrational quantum chemical techniques. Their quartic force fields are herein calibrated using a high-level composite energy scheme that accounts for extrapolations to both one-particle and (approximate) -particle basis set limits, in addition to relativistic effects, with the final forms being subsequently subject to nuclear motion calculations. Besides standard spectroscopic attributes, the full set of computed properties includes fine and hyperfine interaction constants and can be readily introduced as guesses in conventional experimental data reduction analyses through effective Hamiltonians. On the basis of benchmark calculations performed anew for a minimal test set of prototypical triatomics and limited (low-resolution) experimental data for -CCN-(3Σ-), the target accuracies are determined to be better than 0.1% of experiment for rotational constants and 0.3% for vibrational fundamentals. Apart from laboratory investigations, the results here presented are expected to also prompt future astronomical surveys on C2N-. To this end and using the theoretically-predicted spectroscopic constants, the rotational spectra of both -CCN-(3Σ-) and c-CNC-(1A1) are derived and their likely detectability in the interstellar medium is further explored in connection with working frequency ranges of powerful astronomical facilities. Our best theoretical estimate places c-CNC-(1A1) at about 15.3 kcal mol-1 above the ground-state -CCN-(3Σ-) species.
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- C M R Rocha
- Laboratory for Astrophysics, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Laboratory for Astrophysics, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Mant B, Yurtsever E, González-Sánchez L, Wester R, Gianturco FA. Vibrational quenching of CN - in collisions with He and Ar. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:084305. [PMID: 33639742 DOI: 10.1063/5.0039854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The vibrational quenching cross sections and corresponding low-temperature rate constants for the ν = 1 and ν = 2 states of CN-(1Σ+) colliding with He and Ar atoms have been computed ab initio using new three-dimensional potential energy surfaces. Little work has been carried out so far on low-energy vibrationally inelastic collisions for anions with neutral atoms. The cross sections and rates calculated at energies and temperatures relevant for both ion traps and astrochemical modeling are found by the present calculations to be even smaller than those of the similar C2 -/He and C2 -/Ar systems, which are in turn of the order of those existing for the collisions involving neutral diatom-atom systems. The implications of our finding in the present case mainly focus on the possible role of small computed rate constants in the dynamics of molecular cooling and the evolution of astrochemical modeling networks.
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- Barry Mant
- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25/3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, Koç University, Rumelifeneri yolu, Sariyer, TR-34450 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Departamento de Química Física, University of Salamanca, Plaza de los Caídos sn, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25/3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25/3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Simpson M, Nötzold M, Schmidt-May A, Michaelsen T, Bastian B, Meyer J, Wild R, Gianturco FA, Milovanović M, Kokoouline V, Wester R. Threshold photodetachment spectroscopy of the astrochemical anion CN . J Chem Phys 2020; 153:184309. [PMID: 33187436 DOI: 10.1063/5.0029841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Threshold photodetachment spectroscopy has been performed on the molecular anion CN- at both 16(1) K and 295(2) K in a 22-pole ion trap and at 295(2) K from a pulsed ion beam. The spectra show a typical energy dependence of the detachment cross section yielding a determination of the electron affinity of CN to greater precision than has previously been known at 31 163(16) cm-1 [3.864(2) eV]. Allowed s-wave detachment is observed for CN-, but the dependence of the photodetachment cross section near the threshold is perturbed by the long-range interaction between the permanent dipole moment of CN and the outgoing electron. Furthermore, we observe a temperature dependence of the cross section near the threshold, which we attribute to a reduction of the effective permanent dipole due to higher rotational excitation at higher temperatures.
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- Malcolm Simpson
- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- University of Belgrade, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, P.O. Box 47, 11158 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, 4111 Libra Drive, Physical Sciences Bldg. 430, Orlando, Florida 32816-2385, USA
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Cernicharo J, Marcelino N, Pardo JR, Agúndez M, Tercero B, de Vicente P, Cabezas C, Bermúdez C. Interstellar nitrile anions: Detection of C 3N - and C 5N - in TMC-1 . ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS 2020; 641:L9. [PMID: 33173234 PMCID: PMC7116340 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We report on the first detection of C3N- and C5N- towards the cold dark core TMC-1 in the Taurus region, using the Yebes 40 m telescope. The observed C3N/C3N- and C5N/C5N- abundance ratios are ~140 and ~2, respectively; that is similar to those found in the circumstellar envelope of the carbon-rich star IRC +10216. Although the formation mechanisms for the neutrals are different in interstellar (ion-neutral reactions) and circumstellar clouds (photodissociation and radical-neutral reactions), the similarity of the C3N/C3N- and C5N/C5N- abundance ratios strongly suggests a common chemical path for the formation of these anions in interstellar and circumstellar clouds. We discuss the role of radiative electronic attachment, reactions between N atoms and carbon chain anions C n -, and that of H- reactions with HC3N and HC5N as possible routes to form C n N-. The detection of C5N- in TMC-1 gives strong support for assigning to this anion the lines found in IRC +10216, as it excludes the possibility of a metal-bearing species, or a vibrationally excited state. New sets of rotational parameters have been derived from the observed frequencies in TMC-1 and IRC +10216 for C5N- and the neutral radical C5N.
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- J Cernicharo
- Grupo de Astrofísica Molecular, Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C/ Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Astrofísica Molecular, Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C/ Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Astrofísica Molecular, Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C/ Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Astrofísica Molecular, Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C/ Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Desarrollos Tecnológicos, Observatorio de Yebes (IGN), 19141 Yebes, Guadalajara, Spain
- Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (IGN), C/ Alfonso XII, 3, 28014, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Desarrollos Tecnológicos, Observatorio de Yebes (IGN), 19141 Yebes, Guadalajara, Spain
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- Grupo de Astrofísica Molecular, Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C/ Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Astrofísica Molecular, Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC), C/ Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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Li L, Fu B, Yang X, Zhang DH. A global ab initio potential energy surface and dynamics of the proton-transfer reaction: OH− + D2 → HOD + D−. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:8203-8211. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp00107d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The reaction mechanisms of OH− + D2 → HOD + D− were first revealed by theory, based on an accurate full-dimensional PES.
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- Lulu Li
- Department of Chemical Physics
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Hefei 230026
- China
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dalian 116023
- China
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- Department of Chemical Physics
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Hefei 230026
- China
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
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- Department of Chemical Physics
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Hefei 230026
- China
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
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Buathong S, Dunning FB. Dissociative electron attachment studies with hyperthermal Rydberg atoms. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:104303. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5049597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- S. Buathong
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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Skomorowski W, Gulania S, Krylov AI. Bound and continuum-embedded states of cyanopolyyne anions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:4805-4817. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp08227d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Equation-of-motion coupled-cluster calculations reveal systematic trends across bound and continuum-embedded excited states in cyanopolyyne anions.
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles
- USA
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Müller HSP, Zingsheim O, Wehres N, Grabow JU, Lewen F, Schlemmer S. Rotational Spectroscopy of the Lowest Energy Conformer of 2-Cyanobutane. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:7121-7129. [PMID: 28862854 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b06072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Isopropyl cyanide was recently detected in space as the first branched alkyl compound. Its abundance with respect to n-propyl cyanide in the Galactic center source Sagittarius B2(N2) is about 0.4. Astrochemical model calculations suggest that for the heavier homologue butyl cyanide the branched isomers dominate over the unbranched n-butyl cyanide and that 2-cyanobutane is the most abundant isomer. We have studied the rotational spectrum of 2-cyanobutane between 2 and 24 GHz using Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy and between 36 and 402 GHz employing (sub)millimeter absorption spectroscopy. Transitions of the lowest energy conformer were identified easily. Its rotational spectrum is very rich, and the quantum numbers J and Ka reach values of 111 and 73, respectively. This wealth of data yielded rotational and centrifugal distortion parameters up to tenth order, diagonal and one off-diagonal 14N nuclear quadrupole coupling parameters, and one nuclear spin-rotation coupling parameter. We have also carried out quantum chemical calculations in part to facilitate the assignments. The molecule 2-cyanobutane was not found in the present ALMA data of Sagittarius B2(N2), but it may be found in the more sensitive data that have been completed very recently in the ALMA Cycle 4.
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- Holger S P Müller
- I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln , Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
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- I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln , Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
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- I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln , Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie & Elektrochemie, Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover , Callinstr. 3A, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln , Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
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- I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln , Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
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- Leiden
Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- School
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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Buathong S, Kelley M, Dunning FB. Probing dissociative electron attachment through heavy-Rydberg ion-pair production in Rydberg atom collisions. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:134309. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4964326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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- S. Buathong
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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Polák R, Fišer J. Theoretical study of electric field gradients at nitrogen nuclei in HNO, CH3NO and C2H3NO. Chem Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2010.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Mladenović M, Lewerenz M, McCarthy MC, Thaddeus P. Isofulminic acid, HONC: Ab initio theory and microwave spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2009; 131:174308. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3257680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Amano T. Extended negative glow and “hollow anode” discharges for submillimeter-wave observation of CN−, C2H−, and C4H−. J Chem Phys 2008; 129:244305. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3043739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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McCarthy MC, Thaddeus P. High-resolution rotational spectroscopy of the carbon chain anions C3N−, C4H−, and C4D−. J Chem Phys 2008; 129:054314. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2960626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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