Abstract
The experimental vibrational energies for the stretching modes of the CO2 molecule are used, with a recently developed method for generalizing the Rydberg-Klein-Rees inversion technique to polyatomics, to obtain a two-dimensional potential surface for nonbending CO2. The resulting surface appears quite accurate; this demonstrates the ability of the method to obtain actual polyatomic potential surfaces and constitutes the first successful determination of a polyatomic potential surface by inversion of spectra.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1288-1291 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1984 |