Authors: Natalja Vogt Jean Demaison Heinz Dieter Rudolph
Publish Date: 2010/12/25
Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 337-343
Abstract
The quadratic cubic and semidiagonal quartic force fields of maleic anhydride have been calculated at the MP2 level of theory employing the ccpVTZ basis set The spectroscopic constants derived from the force field are in excellent agreement with the corresponding experimental values The semiexperimental equilibrium structure has been derived from experimental ground state rotational constants and rovibrational corrections calculated from the cubic force field This semiexperimental equilibrium structure is in excellent agreement with the ab initio structures computed at the CCSDT level of theory and it is closer to the ab initio structure than the purely experimental or empirical structures r 0 r m 1 and r m 2 obtained by microwave spectroscopy as well as the equilibrium structure derived from gasphase electron diffraction data
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