Gas-phase high-resolution molecular spectroscopy for LAV molecules
Abstract High-resolution infrared (IR) spectroscopy is essential to the analysis of molecular rotation-vibration spectra. The high-resolution spectra deliver much information about structure and dynamic of molecules, but often they are very complex. For nonrigid molecules the complexity arises from transition tunneling splittings. Methylamine is a classic example of a nonrigid molecule in which two large amplitude motions, inversion and torsion, occur simultaneously. It has six equivalent potential minima, for which an effective vibration-inversion-torsion-rotation Hamiltonian has been developed. In the chapter assignment and analysis of several spectral regions of methylamine have been briefly presented explaining the assigning techniques and theoretical treatment of experimental lines.
