The effects of methyl internal rotation and 14N quadrupole coupling in the microwave spectra of two conformers of N,N-diethylacetamide
The gas phase structures and internal dynamics of N,N-diethylacetamide were determined with very high accuracy using a combination of molecular beam Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations at high levels. Conformational studies yielded five stable conformers with C...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of chemical physics 2014-11, Vol.141 (20) |
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Zusammenfassung: | The gas phase structures and internal dynamics of N,N-diethylacetamide were determined with very high accuracy using a combination of molecular beam Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations at high levels. Conformational studies yielded five stable conformers with C1 symmetry. The two most energetically favorable conformers, conformer I and II, could be found in the experimental spectrum. For both conformers, quadrupole hyperfine splittings of the 14N nucleus and torsional fine splittings due to the internal rotation of the acetyl methyl group occurred in the same order of magnitude and were fully assigned. The rotational constants, centrifugal distortion constants as well as the quadrupole coupling constants of the 14N nucleus were determined and fitted to experimental accuracy. The V3 potentials were found to be 517.04(13) cm−1 and 619.48(91) cm−1 for conformer I and II, respectively, and compared to the V3 potentials found in other acetamides. Highly accurate CCSD(T) and DMC calculations were carried out for calculating the barriers to internal rotation in comparison with the experimentally deduced V3 values. |
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ISSN: | 0021-9606 1089-7690 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.4901980 |