Hindered rotational energy levels of symmetric tops in trigonal crystalline fields
- 15 April 1990
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 92 (8) , 4669-4673
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.457734
Abstract
The energy levels for the hindered rotation of symmetric top molecules or ions in trigonal crystalline fields have been computed. The symmetry group of the Hamiltonian is C̄3v×C3 , where C̄3v is the trigonal group of rotations about the body-fixed axes and C3 is the trigonal group of rotations about the space-fixed axes. The tunneling frequencies of CH3D on a Vulcan III powdered sample have been computed and compared to the observed results.Keywords
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