Cl2CCl-Cl

Formula: CCl₄
Molecular weight: 153.823
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Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

State: ?

Energy (cm^-1)	Med.	References


T_x_d = 24000	Ar	Andrews and Prochaska, 1979
		Andrews, Kelsall, et al., 1983
		Maier, Reisenauer, et al., 1989

State: X

Vib. sym.	No.	Approximate type of mode	cm^-1		Med.	Method	References


a'	1	CCl stretch	1018.2		Ne	IR	Lugez, Jacox, et al., 1998
	1	CCl stretch	1019.7	m	Ar	IR	Prochaska and Andrews, 1977 Maier, Reisenauer, et al., 1989
	2	CCl stretch	503.9		Ne	IR	Lugez, Jacox, et al., 1998
	2	CCl stretch	501.9	m	Ar	IR	Prochaska and Andrews, 1977 Maier, Reisenauer, et al., 1989
	3	Deformation	373.9	w m	Ar	IR	Prochaska and Andrews, 1977 Maier, Reisenauer, et al., 1989
	4	Deformation	291.2	w m	Ar	IR	Prochaska and Andrews, 1977 Maier, Reisenauer, et al., 1989
	5	Cl-Cl stretch	246.4	w m	Ar	IR	Maier, Reisenauer, et al., 1989
a	7	CCl stretch	931.6		Ne	IR	Lugez, Jacox, et al., 1998
	7	CCl stretch	929.1	vs	Ar	IR	Prochaska and Andrews, 1977 Maier, Reisenauer, et al., 1989

Additional references: Jacox, 1994, page 302; Jacox, 2003, page 306

Notes

Weak

Medium

Very strong

Energy separation between the band maximum of the excited electronic state and the v = 0 level of the ground state.

Photodissociation threshold

References

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Andrews and Prochaska, 1979
Andrews, L.; Prochaska, F.T., Absorption spectra and photochemistry of the chlorofluoro- and bromofluoromethane cations in solid argon, J. Phys. Chem., 1979, 83, 3, 368, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100466a015 . [all data]

Andrews, Kelsall, et al., 1983
Andrews, L.; Kelsall, B.J.; Miller, J.H.; Keelan, B.W., J. Chem. Soc., 1983, Faraday Trans. 2 79, 1417. [all data]

Maier, Reisenauer, et al., 1989
Maier, G.; Reisenauer, H.P.; Hu, J.; Hess, B.A., Jr.; Schaad, L.J., Photoisomerisierung von tetrachlormethan in einer argon-matrix, Tetrahed. Lett., 1989, 30, 31, 4105, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4039(00)99333-X . [all data]

Lugez, Jacox, et al., 1998
Lugez, C.L.; Jacox, M.E.; Johnson, R.D., III, Matrix isolation study of the interaction of excited neon atoms with CCl[sub 4]: Infrared spectra of the ion products and of Cl[sub 2]CCl••Cl, J. Chem. Phys., 1998, 109, 17, 7147, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.477397 . [all data]

Prochaska and Andrews, 1977
Prochaska, F.T.; Andrews, L., Matrix photodissociation and photoionization of carbon tetrahalides with noble gas resonance radiation, J. Chem. Phys., 1977, 67, 3, 1091, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.434959 . [all data]

Jacox, 1994
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1994, 464. [all data]

Jacox, 2003
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules: supplement B, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 2003, 32, 1, 1-441, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1497629 . [all data]

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