“…Microwave spectroscopy revealed that 6-methyl-3-heptyne existed as a mixture of two conformers, where the two terminal substituents, Me and i-Pr groups, were eclipsed along the linear axis. 86 The rotational barrier of the methyl group in 2-butyn-1-ol was determined by microwave analysis to be 83 J/mol, although the stable conformation about the acetylene axis was not specified. 87 The rotational barrier of 1,1,1-trifluoro-2-butyne was too low to measure by microwave spectroscopy, being consistent with the result of early MO calculations (16 J/mol).…”