Mathematics – Group Theory
Scientific paper
Jun 2011
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"International Symposium On Molecular Spectroscopy, 66th Meeting, Held 20-24 June, 2011 at Ohio State University. http://molspec
Mathematics
Group Theory
Mini-Symposium: Spectroscopic Perturbations
Scientific paper
The electronic ground state potential surface of acetylene (HCCH) has a minimum at the linear conformation, but the excited electronic states may have potential minima at a variety of nonlinear equilibrium shapes. This work is concerned with the group theoretical ideas necessary to treat simultaneously the symmetry properties of rovibronic states associated with three different planar acetylene equilibrium configurations, namely trans bent acetylene, cis bent acetylene, and vinylidene (H2C=C). We make use of three different kinds of groups: (i) point groups, (ii) permutation-inversion (PI) groups, and (iii) extended PI groups. The PI group is G4 or G8, depending on whether C-H bond breaking is impossible (no bent acetylene leftrightarrow vinylidene interconversion), or possible. The extended PI groups are G4(2) and G8(2), respectively, when the only large amplitude motions are the CCH bends at each end of the molecule, and G4(8) and G8(8), respectively, when internal rotation is added as a third large amplitude motion. Applied to acetylene, the results indicate that there will be no splittings of the rovibronic levels unless CH bond breaking occurs. Even without bond breaking, however, states of the cis and trans isomers just below their interconversion barrier will show "staggerings" in their K-structures, i.e., a given vibrational level will have three tunneling components at slightly different energies: one component will have levels with K=4n only (where n is an integer), a second component will have levels with K=4n+2 only, and the third will have only odd-K levels. New experimental results for the S1-cis electronic state of acetylene are reviewed, and are found to be consistent with the group theory in so far as comparison is possible.
Hougen Jon T.
Merer Anthony J.
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