OH Radical







 









Deuterium and Oxygen


Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constants


in Hydroxyl Radical


 








 


 





  








   







Table 1. Deuterium nqcc's in OH (kHz).
   










Calc.
Expt. [1]
   







 2H eQq1
255.2
143(2)
 


 







The difference between calculated and experimental deuterium nqcc's is 112 kHz (78 %).
 
 
 
Table 2.  17O nqcc in OH (MHz).
 eQqo
Experimental [1] -1.92
Calculated
B1B95/6-311++G(3df,3p) -1.946
B1LYP/6-311++G(3df,3p) -1.925
B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,3p) -1.870
MP4(SDQ)/6-311++G(3df,3pd) -1.771
 
 
 

Bond Length, re = 0.97998 Å [3]

 








 








[1] W.L.Meerts and A.Dymanus, Ap.J.(Letters) 180,L93(1973).
[2] K.R.Leopold, K.M.Evenson, E.R.Comben, and J.M.Brown, J.Mol. Spectrosc. 122,440(1987).
[3] F.J.Lovas and E.Tiemann, J.Phys.Chem.Ref.Data 3,609(1974).
 
 

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