INVESTIGATION OF $H_{2}HCl$ AND $H_{2}DCl$ COMPLEXES: $H_{2}$ ORIENTATION EFFECTS IN THE VAN DER WAALS COMPLEX

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1990

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Ohio State University

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Recent high resolution infrared spectra recorded on a difference frequency and Pb-salt diode laser spectrometers have been obtained for $H_{2}HCl$ and $H_{2}DCl$ complexes, respectively. Analyses of these systems are used to characterize the internal rotor motion of the $H_{2}$ and the intermolecular potential which orients the subunits into a T-shaped asymmetric top complex. The spectra provide an opportunity to study any preferential orientation of DCl systems versus their HCl analogs. Such a differential intermolecular orientation has been demonstrated both $theoretically^{1}$ and $experimentally^{2}$ for rare gas . H(D)Cl complexes. The vibrationally averaged geometries of $H_{2}HCl$ and $H_{2}DCl$ are of interest since these systems provide a means of investigating photo initiated chemical insertion reactions of $D + H_{2}$ and $H + D_{2}$

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$^{1}$ J. Hutson, J. Chem. Phys. 89. 4550 (1988). J.Hutson, J. Chem. Phys. 91,4448 (1989). $^{2}$M.D. Schuder, D.D. Nelson, and D.J. Nesbitt (in preparation)
Author Institution: Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado

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