| Abstract: | From the independence of the contour of spectral density of the rotational (orientation) correlation function of a rigid molecular
top of arbitrary symmetry on temperature in the frequency scale based on the reduced time of rotational orientation relaxation
and from the near independence of the rotational contour of vibrational and vibronic absorption bands of dipole transitions
in the same coordinates in a model of “regular diffusion” of the transition oscillator with a classically rotating rigid molecular
top, it is suggested that it is possible to use the halfwidth of the contour for estimation of temperatures. Data are presented
on the halfwidth of 48 contours of bands of A, B, and C types at this frequency for 12 compounds for a temperature range of
from units to 500 degrees of absolute temperature measured experimentally and (for low temperatures) calculated by the quantum
theory.
Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70, F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated
from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 312–317, May–June, 1997. |
