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COMPARISON OF AN IMPROVED SEMI-EXPERIMENTAL EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURE (reSE) OF KETENE TO A HIGH-LEVEL THEORETICAL EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURE

Smith, Houston H.

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Title
COMPARISON OF AN IMPROVED SEMI-EXPERIMENTAL EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURE (reSE) OF KETENE TO A HIGH-LEVEL THEORETICAL EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURE
Author(s)
Smith, Houston H.
Contributor(s)
  • McMahon, Robert J.
  • Woods, R. Claude
  • Stanton, John F.
  • Wood, Samuel A.
  • Esselman, Brian J.
Issue Date
2023-06-21
Keyword(s)
Structure determination
Abstract
The millimeter-wave spectrum of ketene has been collected and analyzed from 130 GHz to 750 GHz and provided highly precise spectroscopic constants from a sextic S-reduced Hamiltonian. The synthesis of deuteriated samples enabled the spectroscopic measurements of five previously unreported ketene isotopologues. Combined with previous work, this resulted in a new highly precise and accurate semi-experimental (rₑSE) structure for ketene from 32 independent moments of inertia. This rₑSE structure was determined with the experimental rotational constants from all available isotopologues, together with computed vibration-rotation interaction and electron-mass distribution corrections from coupled-cluster singles, doubles, and perturbative triple calculations [CCSD(T)/cc-pCVTZ]. The 2σ uncertainties of the parameters of the rₑSE are ≤ 0.007 A˚ and 0.014◦ for the bond distances and independent angle, respectively. Only S-reduced spectroscopic constants were used in the structure determination, due to a breakdown in the A reduction of the Hamiltonian for the most prolate ketene species. All four structural parameters are in agreement with the “best theoretical estimate” (BTE) calculated from the CCSD(T)/cc-pCV6Z rₑ structure with corrections for extrapolation to the complete basis set, the incomplete treatment of electron correlation, the diagonal Born-Oppenheimer breakdown, and relativistic effects. The discrepancies between the current rₑSE and previously reported rₑSE structures will be discussed.
Publisher
International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
Type of Resource
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Genre of Resource
Conference Paper / Presentation
Language
eng
Handle URL
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/122386
DOI
https://doi.org/10.15278/isms.2023.6939

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