Femtosecond Rotational Raman Coherence Spectroscopy of Cyclohexane in a Pulsed Supersonic Jet

Brügger, Georges; Frey, Hans-Martin; Steinegger, Patrick; Kowalewski, Philipp; Leutwyler, Samuel (2011). Femtosecond Rotational Raman Coherence Spectroscopy of Cyclohexane in a Pulsed Supersonic Jet. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 115(44), pp. 12380-12389. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society 10.1021/jp207290g

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We combine the technique of femtosecond degenerate four-wave mixing (fs-DFWM) with a high repetition-rate pulsed supersonic jet source to obtain the rotational coherence spectrum (RCS) of cold cyclohexane (C(6)H(12)) with high signal/noise ratio. In the jet expansion, the near-parallel flow pattern combined with rapid translational cooling effectively eliminate dephasing collisions, giving near-constant RCS signal intensities over time delays up to 5 ns. The vibrational cooling in the jet eliminates the thermally populated vibrations that complicate the RCS coherences of cyclohexane at room temperature [Bragger, G.; et al. J. Phys. Chem. A 2011, 115, 9567]. The rotational cooling reduces the high-J rotational-state population, yielding the most accurate ground-state rotational constant to date, B(0) = 4305.859(9) MHz. Based on this B(0), a reanalysis of previous room-temperature gas-cell RCS measurements of cydohexane gives improved vibration rotation interaction constants for the v(32), v(6), v(16), and v(24) vibrational states. Combining the experimental B(0)(C(6)H(12)) with CCSD(T) calculations yields a very accurate semiexperimental equilibrium structure of the chair isomer of cyclohexane

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DCBP)

UniBE Contributor:

Leutwyler, Samuel

ISSN:

1089-5639

Publisher:

American Chemical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:26

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:07

Publisher DOI:

10.1021/jp207290g

Web of Science ID:

000296393500037

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/9406 (FactScience: 215138)

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