Vibration-rotation energy pattern in acetylene: (13)CH(12)CH up to 10 120 cm(-1).

All 18,219 vibration-rotation absorption lines of (13)CH(12)CH published in the literature, accessing substates up to 9400 cm(-1) and including some newly assigned, were simultaneously fitted to J-dependent Hamiltonian matrices exploiting the well-known vibrational polyad or cluster block-diagonalization, in terms of the pseudo quantum numbers N(s) = v(1) + v(2) + v(3) and N(r) = 5v(1) + 3v(2) + 5v(3) + v(4) + v(5), also accounting for k = l(4) + l(5) parity and e/f symmetry properties. Some 1761 of these lines were excluded from the fit, corresponding either to blended lines, for about 30% of them, or probably to lines perturbed by Coriolis for the remaining ones. The dimensionless standard deviation of the fit is 1.10, and 317 vibration-rotation parameters are determined. These results significantly extend those of a previous report considering levels below only 6750 cm(-1) [Fayt, A.; et al. J. Chem. Phys. 2007, 126, 114303]. Unexpected problems are reported when inserting in the global fit the information available on higher-energy polyads, extending from 9300 to 10 120 cm(-1). They are tentatively interpreted as resulting from a combination of the relative evolution of the two effective bending frequencies and long-range interpolyad low-order anharmonic resonances. The complete database, made of 18,865 vibration-rotation lines accessing levels up to 10 120 cm(-1), is made available as Supporting Information.