Thin-film infrared spectroscopy of acetonitrile.

Chemphyschem

School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel.

Published: December 2007

Acetonitrile and [D3]acetonitrile in the vicinal region of a planar AgX fiber contain linear dipole-dipole linked oligomers as shown by 1) comparison of infrared band intensity ratios in the gaseous and condensed phases and 2) remarkable plots of absorbance (C--N stretch) versus time during evaporation from an AgX planar fiber element. The plots (CH3CN 2252 cm(-1), CD3CN 2262 cm(-1)) reveal the presence of octamers, hexamers, tetramers, and dimers along with some heptamer, trimer, and monomer structures. A novel isotope effect arises from the somewhat smaller size of the CD3CN resulting in an increase in the CN band intensity. The organized oligomers may be termed pseudocrystals and are the main components responsible for absorption intensity in the infrared spectrum of acetonitrile, on the AgX planar fiber or in an IR cell.

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