The Iodine Hvperfine Structure in the Microwave Spectrum of Ethyl Iodide: Nuclear Quadrupole and Spin Rotation Coupling

Abstract

Abstract Some rotational transitions of ethyl iodide, CH3CH2I, have been reinvestigated by microwave Fourier transform (MWFT) spectroscopy. The iodine hyperfine structure splittings were first ana lyzed using a direct diagonalization procedure of the complete quadrupole Hamiltonian matrix. The results of this analysis showed deviations from our measurements up to 60 kHz. A new analysis using additional spin rotation coupling matrix elements reproduces our measurements within the experi­mental error limit and decreases the standard deviation of the least squares fit from 28 kHz to only 4 kHz.