Vibrationally induced nuclear quadrupole coupling in the v3=1 state of 189OsO4

Abstract

Electric nuclear quadrupole hyperfine structure arising from a quadrupolar nucleus at the center of tetrahedral molecules, such as 189OsO4, is symmetry forbidden. However, through vibration–rotation distortion a small nuclear quadrupole coupling is induced. The hyperfine structure due to the vibrationally induced eqQ has been measured for a number of P- and R-branch transitions in the ν3 fundamental of 189OsO4, by using inverse Lamb dip spectroscopy. Microwave modulation sidebands of CO2 laser lines have been used as the tunable infrared radiation. From the analysis of the observed hyperfine structure patterns, the values of the scalar and tensor coupling constants have been determined to be χVs=−4.103±0.048 MHz and χVt=−3.090±0.059 MHz.