Abstract
The infrared and Raman spectra of the series of alkali metal salts of the monoanion radical of tetracyanoquinodimethane MTCNQ (M = Li, Na and K) are observed and analysed both in the low-frequency lattice vibration region and in the intramolecular vibration region. The vibrational assignments are made, by comparing the spectra of MTCNQ with one another and investigating the difference between the powder and solution spectra and the temperature dependence of the spectra. The monomer—dimer phase transition in NaTCNQ and KTCNQ of the columnar stacking of TCNQ − does not cause a marked change in the low-frequency spectra due to the lattice vibrations. The vibronically activated bands of the totally symmetric modes of the TCNQ − anion are observed in the infrared spectra, which are associated with the charge-transfer intermolecular interaction. A lattice dynamical analysis for the optically active crystal vibrations of NaTCNQ and KTCNQ is performed, and the result of this calculation also verifies the vibrational assignments of the low-frequency infrared and Raman bands attributed experimentally to the translational and rotational lattice modes.
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