Quadratic quantum-chemical force fields have been determined for s-trans-1,3-butadiene using B3LYP and MP2 methods. Basis sets included 6-311++G, cc-pVTZ, and aug-cc-pVTZ. Scaling of the force fields was based on frequency data for up to 11 isotopomers, some of these data being original. A total of 18 scale factors were employed, with, in addition, an alteration to one off-diagonal force constant in the A(u) species. MP2 calculations without f functions in the basis perform badly in respect of out-of-plane bending mode frequencies. Centrifugal distortion constants and harmonic contributions to vibration-rotation constants (alphas) have been calculated. Existing experimental frequency data for all isotopomers are scrutinized, and a number of reassignments and diagnoses of Fermi resonance made, particularly in the nu(CH) region. The three types of CH bond in butadiene were characterized in terms of bond length and isolated CH stretching frequency, the latter reflecting data in the nu(CD) region. Broad agreement was achieved with earlier results from local mode studies. Differences in CH bond properties resemble similar differences in propene. A simplified sample setup for recording FT-Raman spectra of gases was applied to four isotopomers of butadiene.
The experimental vibrational frequencies of
s-trans-1,3-butadiene, for which the assignments are
well-established, are used to determine the scale factors for its quantum
mechanical force field obtained at the
MP2/6-31G*//MP2/6-31G* level of theory. The scale factors are then
transferred to the MP2/6-31G*//MP2/6-31G* force fields of the s-cis and s-gauche
rotamers and their theoretical frequencies calculated.
Comparison
of the vibrational frequencies of these three species indicates a
special region of the IR spectrum of 1,3-butadiene in the gas phase (720−790 cm-1) in
which only a band attributable to the s-gauche rotamer
should
be present; i.e., it should be free both of the observed IR bands of
the s-trans and of the calculated vibrational
frequencies of the s-cis conformer. Investigation of
the medium- and high-resolution IR spectra of 1,3-butadiene in the gas phase reveals the presence of a band at
749.22(20) cm-1 possessing the typical B
contour
(consistent with A symmetry, C
2 group).
Rotational analysis of the medium-resolution spectrum of this
band
yields the rotational constants A‘‘ − B̄‘‘
= 0.4478(27) cm-1 and A‘
− B̄‘ = 0.4455(25)
cm-1, only about
one-third of the experimental values for
s-trans-1,3-butadiene. This identifies the band as
belonging to the
high-energy conformer of 1,3-butadiene. The agreement between the
experimental and theoretical values of
the band center (749 vs 735 cm-1), the clear
B type contour, and the extremely complicated character of
the
high-resolution spectrum of the band at 749.22
cm-1 strongly suggest that the geometry of
the high-energy
conformer of 1,3-butadiene in the gas phase is nonplanar
s-gauche and not planar s-cis.
A theoretical background to the scaling procedure used for correcting molecular force constants computed at the Hartree-Fock (HF) level is presented, in which scaling is considered as an empirical simulation of the effect of electron correlation. Using a variational formalism for the analytical first and second derivatives, it is shown that a successful scaling requires (i) relatively large exact excitation energies; (ii) a singlet-stable solution for the HF ground state; and (iii) molecular orbitals that can be well localized for the ground electronic state. The relationship between the 'exact nonrelativistic and HF limit values of the quadratic force constants has been investigated when the above conditions are satisfied. A single multiplicative (scale) factor is required at this limit and its value is approximately C~ near the "exact" equilibrium geometry, where Co is the coefficient of the HF determinant in a complete configuration interaction expansion. This approach requires a moderate size of the molecules investigated. A specific numerical example is considered.
This paper reports on the creation of a THL-100 multi-terawatt hybrid laser system based on a Start-480M titaniumsapphire starting complex and photochemical XeF(C-A) amplifier with a 25-cm aperture. The complex produces 50-fs radiation pulses of energy up to 5 mJ at a second harmonic wavelength of 475 nm. The active medium of the amplifier is created in a XeF 2 /N 2 mixture under vacuum-ultraviolet radiation of electron beam-excited xenon. The results of first experiments on femtosecond pulse amplification in the active medium of the XeF(C-A) amplifier are presented to demonstrate that a laser beam peak power of 14 TW has been attained.
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