Niobium dimer


Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled by: Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman

Ionization energy determinations

IE (eV) Method Reference
6.368 ± 0.001LSJames, Kowalczyk, et al., 1994

Constants of diatomic molecules

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Data compiled by: Klaus P. Huber and Gerhard H. Herzberg

Data collected through March, 1975

Symbols used in the table of constants
SymbolMeaning
State electronic state and / or symmetry symbol
Te minimum electronic energy (cm-1)
ωe vibrational constant – first term (cm-1)
ωexe vibrational constant – second term (cm-1)
ωeye vibrational constant – third term (cm-1)
Be rotational constant in equilibrium position (cm-1)
αe rotational constant – first term (cm-1)
γe rotation-vibration interaction constant (cm-1)
De centrifugal distortion constant (cm-1)
βe rotational constant – first term, centrifugal force (cm-1)
re internuclear distance (Å)
Trans. observed transition(s) corresponding to electronic state
ν00 position of 0-0 band (units noted in table)
Diatomic constants for 93Nb2
StateTeωeωexeωeyeBeαeγeDeβereTrans.ν00
A (280) 1          A ← X 1 (18704)
Green and Gruen, 1972
X 0           

Notes

1Absorption in Ar matrix at 14 K.

References

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James, Kowalczyk, et al., 1994
James, A.M.; Kowalczyk, P.; Langlois, E.; Campbell, M.D.; Ogawa, A.; Simard, B., Resonant two photon ionization spectroscopy of the molecules V2, VNb, and Nb2, J. Chem. Phys., 1994, 101, 4485. [all data]

Green and Gruen, 1972
Green, D.W.; Gruen, D.M., Absorption spectra of Nb atoms isolated in rare-gas matrices, J. Chem. Phys., 1972, 57, 4462. [all data]


Notes

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