title: The OH-stretching and OOH-bending overtone spectrum of HOONO.
abstract: We have simulated the HOONO vibrational overtone spectrum with use of a local mode Hamiltonian that includes the OH-stretching, OOH-bending, and NOOH-torsional modes and coupling between all three modes. The local mode parameters and the dipole moment function are calculated with coupled-cluster ab initio theory and an augmented Dunning-type triple-zeta basis set. We investigate the accuracy of the local mode parameters obtained from two different potential-energy fitting routines, as well as the sensitivity of these parameters to the basis set employed. We compare our simulated spectra to previously published action spectra in the first and second OH-stretching overtone regions. In addition we have recorded the spectrum in the OH-stretch and OOH-bend combination region around 7700 cm-1 and we also compare to this. Our simulated spectrum is in qualitative agreement with experiment in the first and second OH-stretching overtone and in the stretch-bend regions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Daniel P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Schofield
authors.forename: Henrik G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Kjaergaard
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Matthews
authors.forename: Amitabha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sinha