High resolution rotation–vibration Raman spectra of acetylene. II. The spectra of C2D2 and C2HD

Abstract

The Raman spectra of gaseous C2D2 and C2HD were excited in a multiple-reflection Raman cell by a single-moded Ar+ laser and recorded photographically; the gas pressures were in the range, 130–200 Torr, and the spectral slit width was ~ 0.1 cm−1. The ν1, ν2, and ν41 bands of C2D2 and the ν1 and ν2 bands of C2HD were recorded. These were analyzed to give the band origin, ν0, and the upper state constants, B1 and D1; accurate infrared values of the ground state constants, B0 and D0, were assumed in the analyses. Values of the rotation–vibration interaction constants, αi, assembled from Raman and infrared studies of C2H2, C2D2, and C2HD, were used to calculate the equilibrium internuclear distances for the acetylene molecule: re(C—H) = 1.06250 ± 0.00010 and re(C≡C) = 1.20241 ± 0.00009 Å.