Synchrotron-Based High Resolution Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of trans-Butadiene

Marie Aline Martin-Drumel, Jessica P. Porterfield, Manuel Goubet, Pierre Asselin, Robert Georges, Pascale Soulard, Matthew Nava, P. Bryan Changala, Brant Billinghurst, Olivier Pirali, Michael C. McCarthy, Joshua H. Baraban

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Abstract

The high resolution far-infrared spectrum of trans-butadiene has been reinvestigated by Fourier-transform spectroscopy at two synchrotron radiation facilities, SOLEIL and the Canadian Light Source, at temperatures ranging from 50 to 340 K. Beyond the well-studied bands, two new fundamental bands lying below 1100 cm-1, ν10 and ν24, have been assigned using a combination of cross-correlation (ASAP software) and Loomis-Wood type (LWWa software) diagrams. While the ν24 analysis was rather straightforward, ν10 exhibits obvious signs of a strong perturbation, presumably owing to interaction with the dark ν9 + ν12 state. Effective rotational constants have been derived for both the v10 = 1 and v24 = 1 states. Since only one weak, infrared active fundamental band (ν23) of trans-butadiene remains to be observed at high resolution in the far-infrared, searches for the elusive gauche conformer can now be undertaken with considerably greater confidence in the dense ro-vibrational spectrum of the trans form.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2427-2435
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry A
Volume124
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Mar 2020

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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