Molecular Constants of GeCl4 and SnCl4 from Coriolis Coupling Constants and an Appraisal of the Accuracy of the Method in Determining Force Fields, Mean Amplitudes and Shrinkage

Abstract

The Coriolis Coupling constants of GeCl4 and SnCl4 are obtained from the contours of the ν4 bands and used to determine the force fields. From consideration of these and that previously reported for SiCl4 it is shown that even relatively inaccurate Coriolis constants can yield better force fields and Bastiansen-Morino shrinkage effects than experimental mean amplitudes of vibration; but that for SnCl4 , because of significant differences between usually valid approximate force fields and the Coriolis constant fixed one, a wrong value of the constant may have been obtained. It is also shown that the force field obtained from Vol’kenshtein’s theory of absolute Raman intensities is not very good for GeCl4 and wildly inaccurate for SnCl4 .