ISSN:
0020-7608
Keywords:
Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling
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Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The influence of a small deformation of CĈO angle in phenol (tilt), into the rotational far-infrared (FIR) spectrum is analyzed using several approaches. In all of them, the CNDO/2 method is used to determine the potential energy functions. In a first step, the C—O bond and the rotation axis are both supposed to coincide with the C2 symmetry axis of the phenyl group. With this assumption the torsional frequencies are calculated in both the symmetric and asymmetric rotor approximations. In a second step, the tilt of the C—OH bond is determined theoretically and found to be -3°, measured from the C2 symmetry axis, the C—OH bond crossing this axis, Using this second geometry, and taking as the rotation axis the C2 axis, the torsional frequencies are again determined in both approximations. An improvement of the calculated transition energies is encountered at each stage of the calculation, when compared with experimental data. Finally the importance of the introduction of a tilt into the FIR torsional frequency calculations is discussed.
Additional Material:
1 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qua.560220403
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