Theoretical study of the C-H/O-H stretching vibrations in malonaldehyde

Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
G A PitsevichV Balevicius

Abstract

IR and Raman spectra of the malonaldehyde molecule and its deuterated analogues were calculated in the B3LYP/cc-pVQZ approximation. Anharmonicity effects were taken into account both in the context of a standard model of the second order perturbation theory and by constructing the potential energy surfaces (PES) with a limited number of dimensions using the Cartesian coordinates of the hydroxyl hydrogen atom and the stretching coordinates of С-Н, C-D, O-H, and O-D bonds. It was shown that in each of the two equivalent forms of the molecule, besides the global minimum, an additional local minimum at the PES is formed with the energy more than 3,000 cm(-1) higher than the energy in the global minimum. Calculations carried out by constructing the 2D and 3D PESs indicate a high anharmonicity level and multiple manifestations of the stretching О-Н vibrations, despite the fact that the model used does not take into account the splitting of the ground-state and excited vibrational energy levels. In particular, the vibration with the frequency 3,258 cm(-1) may be associated with proton transfer to the region of a local minimum of energy. Comparing the results obtained with the experimental data presented in the literature allowed us to...Continue Reading

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Jan 6, 2001·Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy·S F Tayyari, F Milani-nejad
Nov 13, 2004·The Journal of Chemical Physics·Maurício D Coutinho-NetoUwe Manthe

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