INFRARED-LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF THE LINEAR C-13 CARBON CLUSTER

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GIESEN, TF [1 ]
VANORDEN, A [1 ]
HWANG, HJ [1 ]
FELLERS, RS [1 ]
PROVENCAL, RA [1 ]
SAYKALLY, RJ [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,DEPT CHEM,BERKELEY,CA 94720
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10.1126/science.11539187
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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The infrared absorption spectrum of a linear, 13-atom carbon cluster (C-13) has been observed by the use of a supersonic cluster beam-diode laser spectrometer. Seventy-six rovibrational transitions were measured near 1809 wave numbers and assigned to an antisymmetric stretching fundamental in the (1) Sigma(g)(+) ground state of C-13. This definitive structural characterization of a carbon cluster in the intermediate size range between C-10 and C-20 is in apparent conflict with theoretical calculations, which predict that clusters of this size should exist as planar monocyclic rings.
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