The Infrared Spectroscopy of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Five- and Seven-membered Fused Ring Defects

Details The Infrared Spectroscopy of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Five- and Seven-membered Fused Ring Defects The Infrared Spectroscopy of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Five- and Seven-membered Fused Ring Defects

Mar 2011

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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 729, Issue 2, article id. 94 (2011).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Astrochemistry, Infrared: Ism, Ism: Lines And Bands, Ism: Molecules, Line: Identification, Methods: Numerical, Molecular Data

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) growth and destruction are thought to proceed via the occasional incorporation of five- and seven-membered fused ring defects in the hexagonal carbon skeleton. Using density functional theory, this paper investigates the effect such five- and seven-membered fused ring defects have on the infrared spectra of ovalene, circumovalene, and circumcircumovalene. The defects make only small changes to the overall infrared (IR) spectra, both in the mid-IR and in the far-IR, of these species. In addition to small shifts in the positions of the bands between the PAHs with and without defects, the most common effect of the defects is to increase the number of bands. Except for an anion with the Stone-Wales defect, all of the species studied have the C-C stretching band at 6.3 μm or at longer wavelengths, the position in Classes B and C astronomical PAH spectra. In the case of the Stone-Wales anion, the band falls at 6.20 μm, suggesting that further study of defects is probably worthwhile, as some PAHs with defects might be important in those sources (Class A) that show a C-C stretching band that falls near 6.2 μm.

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