INFRARED AND MICROWAVE-INFRARED DOUBLE RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF METHANOL EMBEDDED IN SUPERFLUID HELIUM NANODROPLETS
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Ohio State UniversityAbstract:
Methanol is one of the simplest torsional oscillators, and has been extensively studied in the gas phase by various spectroscopic techniques. At 300 K, a large number of rotational, torsional, and vibrational energy levels are populated, and this makes for a rather complicated infrared spectrum which is still not fully understood. It is expected that in going from 300 K to 0.4 K (the temperature of helium nanodroplets) that the population distribution of methanol will collapse into one of two states; the \textit{J,K} = 0,0 level for the \textit{A} symmetry species, and the \textit{J,K} = 1,-1 level for the \textit{E} symmetry species. This results in a simplified spectrum that consists of narrow \textit{a}-type lines and broader \textit{b}-type lines in the OH stretching region. Microwave-infrared double resonance spectroscopy is used to help assign the \textit{a}-type infrared lines.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G-2G2, Canada
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