Rotational spectra induced by vibrations
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Molecular Physics
- Vol. 16 (4), 329-344
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976900100391
Abstract
Mizushima and Venkateswarlu showed in 1953 that certain molecules have the property that excited vibrational states may possess rotational spectra even when the rotational spectrum of the ground vibrational state is forbidden by symmetry. We call such a spectrum a vibrationally induced rotational spectrum, and have made a systematic examination of the point groups which permit such behaviour. We also give formulae for the approximate line frequencies and intensities in these spectra, and discuss some of the problems involved in observing them. The spectra can only arise from degenerate vibrational states, and are of three possible types: Excited vibrational states of polar molecules of point groups Cnv or Cn , where n is odd, may also possess vibrationally induced perpendicular components of type (i), in addition to their ordinary parallel spectra. In addition to the above limitations on the point groups there are, in general, limitations on the symmetry species of the degenerate vibrational states.Keywords
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