Abstract
High-resolution (0.01 cm-1) FTIR spectra of Al(BH4)3 and Al(BD4)3 recorded for low-pressure samples at room temperature are presented that show only broad vibrational bands, with no trace of resolved rotational structure. The BH bridge stretching and the BH2 deformation regions were also examined at 0.001 cm-1 resolution by tunable infrared diode laser spectroscopy for samples cooled to ∼10 K in a multipass, slit expansion. These too show near continua, with much more congestion than predicted by nonrigid rotor simulations based on boron isotopic shifts, Coriolis constants, and centrifugal distortion parameters estimated from ab initio calculations. The latter indicate that a particularly low barrier, corresponding to the prismatic D3h structure, separates two equivalent, lower energy D3 forms in which the BH4 units are rotated 23° about the Al−B axes. The potential energy surface for the relevant conrotary torsional coordinate is examined at the CCSD/6-311G**//MP2/6-311G** level, yielding a barrier heigh...
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