Sub-millimeter Wave Spectra of Cyanoacetylene and Revised Ground State Constants

Abstract

Abstract Sixteen new rotational transitions of cyanoacetylene in the ground vibrational state have been measured in the frequency region from 570 GHz to 710 GHz by the Cologne sub-millimeter wave spectrometer. The observed transition frequencies were analyzed together with unpublished millimeter wave data of our group and with the data available in the literature. Precise rota­ tional constant and the quartic and sextic centrifugal distortion constants have been determined; B = 4549.058224(37) MHz, D = 0.544110(19) kHz, and H = 0.0345(21) mHz.