FT-FIR-spectrum and the ground state constants of D2CO

The ground state spectrum of the formaldehyde D₂¹³CO molecule in the range from 25 to 360 cm⁻¹ has been recorded by a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer. The quantum number limits of the assigned transitions are J = 6-54 and K_a = 0-16. The data was fitted into Watson’s A- and S-reduced Hamiltonians in I^r-representation up to eighth order. The determinable constants calculated from both reductions are compared. The standard deviation of the far infrared data is 3.0 MHz. The spectroscopic constants are also calculated to high accuracy at the CCSD(T)/cc-pVQZ level of ab initio theory and agree well with the experimental ones.