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Lookup NU author(s): Eva Gougoula, Dr Chris Medcraft, Juliane Heitkamper, Dr Nick WalkerORCiD
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© 2019 Author(s).The rotational spectra of N-, 2-, 4-, and 5-methylimidazole are reported and analyzed. Liquid N-methylimidazole was vaporized from a reservoir, and each of 2-, 4-, and 5-methylimidazole was laser-vaporized from a solid target prior to mixing with argon buffer gas and undergoing supersonic expansion from a pulsed nozzle. The spectra were recorded by chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy in the 7.0-18.5 GHz frequency range. Rotational constants, A0, B0, and C0, centrifugal distortion constants, DJ, DJK, DK, d1, and d2, and nuclear quadrupole coupling constants of nitrogen atoms, χaa(N1), χbb(N1) - χcc(N1), χaa(N3), and χbb(N3) - χcc(N3), are determined from experimentally measured transition frequencies. Data recorded for isotopologues containing 13C or 15N are used to determine the rs coordinates of all heavy atoms in N-, 2-, and 4-methylimidazole. The results allow fitting of parameters in the Hamiltonian that describes internal rotation of the CH3 group about its local C3 axis. The V3 terms in the periodic potential energy functions that describe the internal rotation in N-, 2-, 4-, and 5-methylimidazole are determined to be 185.104(11), 122.7529(38), 317.20(14), and 386.001(19) cm-1, respectively, by the internal axis method. The experiments are supported by density functional theory calculations. Observed variations in barrier height are explained with reference to the symmetry of overlap between a π-like orbital on the CH3 group and π-orbitals on the aromatic ring.
Author(s): Gougoula E, Medcraft C, Heitkamper J, Walker NR
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Chemical Physics
Year: 2019
Volume: 151
Issue: 14
Online publication date: 08/10/2019
Acceptance date: 01/09/2019
Date deposited: 09/10/2019
ISSN (print): 0021-9606
ISSN (electronic): 1089-7690
Publisher: AIP Publishing
URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5119997
DOI: 10.1063/1.5119997
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