Vibration-rotation emission spectra and combined isotopomer analyses for the coinage metal hydrides: CuH

J Y Seto, Z Morbi, F Charron, S K Lee, P F Bernath, R J Le Roy

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Abstract

High resolution infrared emission spectra have been measured for AuH and AuD and for two isotopomers of each of CuH, CuD, AgH, and AgD. The molecules were made in a carbon tube furnace (King furnace), and in spite of intense background thermal emission from the furnace (at > 2000 degrees C), vibration-rotation emission data could be recorded. Together with high resolution measurements taken from the literature, the data for each species were treated using two types of combined-isotopomer analysis: One based on fits to empirical molecular parameters, and the other based on direct fits to the underlying potential energy functions, both of which take account of mass-dependent Born-Oppenheimer breakdown correction terms. Accurate isotopically related Dunham parameters and Born-Oppenheimer breakdown parameters are obtained for each species, as well as accurate analytic potential functions and adiabatic and nonadiabatic radial correction functions. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-9606(99)02224-2].

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11756-11767
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Chemical Physics
Volume110
Issue number24
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jun 1999

Keywords

  • STATE INFRARED-SPECTRA
  • DUNHAM COEFFICIENTS
  • DIATOMIC HYDRIDES
  • X1-SIGMA+ STATES
  • CONFIGURATION-INTERACTION
  • MASS DEPENDENCE
  • COPPER HYDRIDE
  • SPECTROSCOPY
  • BREAKDOWN
  • TRANSITION

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