High resolution absorption spectroscopy of the ν1=2–6 acetylenic overtone bands of propyne: Spectroscopy and dynamics

The rotationally resolved nν1 (n=2–6) overtone transitions of the CH acetylenic stretching of propyne (CH3–C≡C–H) have been recorded by using Fourier transform spectroscopy (n=2), various intracavity laser absorption spectrometers (n=3, 4, and 6) and cavity ring down spectroscopy (CRDS) (n=5). The 2ν1, 3ν1, and 6ν1 bands exhibit a well-resolved and mostly unperturbed J-rotational structure, whose analysis is reported. The 5ν1 band recorded by pulsed CRDS shows an unresolved rotational envelope. In the region of 12 700 cm−1, an anharmonic interaction is confirmed between 4ν1 and 3ν1+ν3+ν5. The band at a higher wave number in this dyad exhibits a partly resolved K-structure, whose analysis is reported. The mixing coefficient of the two interacting states is determined consistently using different procedures. The 1/35 anharmonic resonance evidenced in the 4ν1 manifold induces weaker intensity borrowing from the 2ν1 and 3ν1 levels to the ν1+ν3+ν5 and 2ν1+ν3+ν5 level, respectively, which have been predicted and identified. Several hot bands around the 2ν1, 3ν1, and 3ν1+ν3+ν5 bands arising from the ν9=1 and ν10=1 and 2 bending levels are identified and rotationally analyzed, also leading to determine x1,9 [−20.3(3) cm−1], x1,10 [−1.7975(75) cm−1], and x3,10 [−6.56 cm−1]. The J-clumps of the P and R branches in the 6ν1 band at 18 499 cm−1 show a Lorentzian homogeneous profile mostly J-independent with an average full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 0.17 cm−1, attributed to arising from the intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution towards the bath of vibrational states. A detailed comparative examination of the fine structure in all investigated nν1 (n=2 to 7) overtone bands and the similar behavior of the cold and hot bands arising from ν10=1 definitively suggests that a highly specific low-order anharmonic coupling, still unidentified, dominates the hierarchy of interaction mechanisms connecting the nν1 levels to the background states.