CH2CN anion


Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Marilyn E. Jacox

State:   Dip


 Energy 
 (cm-1
 Med.   Transition   λmin 
 (nm) 
 λmax 
 (nm) 
 References

To = 12428.665 ± 0.002 gas Lykke, Neumark, et al., 1987
Wetzel and Brauman, 1989


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

951 ± 10 gas PD Wetzel and Brauman, 1989
b1 5 H2CC deform. 692 ± 10 gas PD Wetzel and Brauman, 1989

State:   X


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

a' 5 H2CC deform. 424.77 gas PD PE Marks, Wetzel, et al., 1986
Moran, Ellis, et al., 1987
Lykke, Neumark, et al., 1987

Additional references: Jacox, 1994, page 252

Notes

oEnergy separation between the v = 0 levels of the excited and electronic ground states.

References

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Lykke, Neumark, et al., 1987
Lykke, K.R.; Neumark, D.M.; Andersen, T.; Trapa, V.J.; Lineberger, W.C., Autodetachment spectroscopy and dynamics of CH2CN- and CD2CN-, J. Chem. Phys., 1987, 87, 12, 6842, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.453379 . [all data]

Wetzel and Brauman, 1989
Wetzel, D.M.; Brauman, J.I., Rotational structure in an excited vibronic band of the dipole-supported state of cyanomethyl anion, CH2CN-, J. Chem. Phys., 1989, 90, 1, 68, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.456468 . [all data]

Marks, Wetzel, et al., 1986
Marks, J.; Wetzel, D.M.; Comita, P.B.; Brauman, J.I., A dipole supported state in cyanomethyl anion, the conjugate base of acetonitrile. Rotational band assignments in the electron photodetachment spectrum of -CH2CN, J. Chem. Phys., 1986, 84, 5284. [all data]

Moran, Ellis, et al., 1987
Moran, S.; Ellis, H.B., Jr.; DeFrees, D.J.; McLean, A.D.; Ellison, G.B., Carbanion spectroscopy: CH2CN-, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1987, 109, 5996. [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]


Notes

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