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A FRACTION of the product of fluorination of cyanogen, in which fluorine cyanide was detected by infra-red spectroscopy1, has now been shown to absorb in the microwave regions of 21,000, 42,000 and 63,000 Mc./s. The absorptions occur in the frequency-ranges expected from the resolved rotational structure of the infra-red band, ν3, centred on 1,077 cm.−1. Their Stark effects and nuclear quadrupole splittings are those expected for J = 0 → 1, 1 → 2 and 2 → 3 transitions in the linear molecule, FC14N. Spectra due to molecules with one quantum of vibrational energy in the degenerate bending mode (ν2) have also been measured.
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SHERIDAN, J., TYLER, J., AYNSLEY, E. et al. Microwave Spectrum of Fluorine Cyanide. Nature 185, 96 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185096a0
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