A combined gigahertz and terahertz synchrotron-based fourier transform infrared (terahertz) spectroscopic investigation of meta- and ortho-d-phenol: observation of tunneling switching

Chen, Ziqiu

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A combined gigahertz and terahertz synchrotron-based fourier transform infrared (terahertz) spectroscopic investigation of meta- and ortho-d-phenol: observation of tunneling switching

Author(s)

Chen, Ziqiu

Contributor(s)

• Quack, Martin
• Prentner, Robert
• Fábri, Csaba
• Albert, Sieghard

Issue Date

2016-06-24

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Synchrotron

Abstract

Tunneling switching is of fundamental interest for certain experiments aiming at detecting parity violation in chiral molecules.\footnote{M. Quack and M. Willeke, \textit{J. Phys .Chem. A} \textbf{110}, 3338-3348 (2006).}$^,$\footnote{M. Quack, \textit{Adv. Chem. Phys} \textbf{157}, 247-291 (2014).} A particularly intriguing recent development is the theoretical prediction of prototypical tunneling switching in meta- and ortho-D-phenol (C$_6$H$_4$DOH) as opposed to phenol (C$_6$H$_5$OH)\footnote{S. Albert, Ph. Lerch, R. Prentner and M. Quack, \textit{Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.} \textbf{52}, 346-349 (2013).} where only tunneling dominates the dynamics: For meta and ortho-D-phenol at low energy, tunneling is completely suppressed due to isotopic substitution, which introduces an asymmetry in the effective potential including zero point vibrational energy in the lowest quasiadiabatic channel. This effectively localizes the molecular wavefunction at either the \textit{syn} or \textit{anti} structure of meta- and ortho-D-phenol. At higher torsional states of meta- and ortho-D-phenol, tunneling becomes dominant, thus switching the dynamics to a delocalized quantum wavefunction.The pure rotational spectra of the meta- and ortho-D-phenol were recorded between 60 and 110 GHz using an experimental setup\footnote{M. Suter and M. Quack, \textit{Appl. Opt} \textbf{54}, 4417-4431 (2015).} which we have improved somewhat whereas the rotationally resolved vibrational spectra in the THz and infrared region were collected in the range of 200 to 1000 \wn using synchrotron-based FTIR spectroscopy.\footnote{S. Albert, Ph. Lerch, R. Prentner and M. Quack, \textit{68th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy}, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 17-21, paper TG09 (2013).}The detailed assignment of the new GHz spectra including excited vibrational states, whereas previously only microwave spectra of the ground state were known,\footnote{T. Pedersen, N. W. Larsen and L. Nygaard, \textit{J. Mol. Struc.} \textbf{4}, 59-77 (1969).} shall be discussed, in terms of the experimental evidence demonstrating tunneling switching in the first overtone of the torsional vibration of meta-D-phenol.

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International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

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En

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