Rotational spectroscopy and equilibrium structures of S3 and S4

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Aug 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005jchph.123e4326t&link_type=abstract

Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 123, Issue 5, pp. 054326-054326-10 (2005).

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Radio-Frequency And Microwave Spectra, Rotational Analysis, Rotation, Vibration, And Vibration-Rotation Constants, General Molecular Conformation And Symmetry, Stereochemistry, Glow, Corona, Discharges For Spectral Sources, Vibrational Analysis, Coupled-Cluster Theory, Potential Energy Surfaces

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The sulfur molecules thiozone S3 and tetrasulfur S4 have been observed in a supersonic molecular beam in the centimeter-wave band by Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy, and in the millimeter- and submillimeter-wave bands in a low-pressure glow discharge. For S3 over 150 rotational transitions between 10 and 458 GHz were measured, and for S4 a comparable number between 6 and 271 GHz. The spectrum of S3 is reproduced to within the measurement uncertainties by an asymmetric top Hamiltonian with three rotational and 12 centrifugal distortion constants; ten distortion constants, but an additional term to account for very small level shifts caused by interchange tunneling, are required to reproduce to comparable accuracy the spectrum of S4. Empirical equilibrium (reemp) structures of S3 and S4 were derived from experimental rotational constants of the normal and sulfur-34 species and vibrational corrections from coupled-cluster theory calculations. Quantum chemical calculations show that interchange tunneling occurs because S4 automerizes through a transition state with D2h symmetry which lies about 500 cm-1 above the two equivalent C2υ minima on the potential energy surface.

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