Structure determination of sec-butylbenzene rotamers by UV spectroscopy and ab initio calculations |
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| Authors: | Evan G Robertson Danielle E Martin Chris D Thompson Richard JS Morrison John G Philis |
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| Institution: | aSchool of Chemistry, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia;bDepartment of Physics, University of Ioannina, GR45110 Ioannina, Greece |
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| Abstract: | Sec-butylbenzene has been investigated using resonant two-photon ionization (R2PI) and UV–UV hole-burning spectroscopy aided by ab initio calculations. All three conformers predicted from theory are observed in the spectrum, and are assigned by rotational band contour analysis. The most strongly populated conformer (G1) has a gauche arrangement of the side chain dihedral angle τ2(C1CαCβCγ). The populations of the anti (A) and the remaining gauche conformer (G2) are about 7% and 2%, respectively. The alpha methyl group is found to significantly affect the conformational preferences in sec-butylbenzene (sec-BB), compared to n-propylbenzene in which the anti conformer is favored. |
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