title: Mode-specific tunneling dynamics in the ground electronic state of tropolone.
abstract: The mode specificity of proton-transfer dynamics in the ground electronic state (X (1)A(1)) of tropolone has been explored at near-rotational resolution by implementing a fully coherent variant of stimulated emission pumping within the framework of two-color resonant four-wave mixing spectroscopy. Three low-lying (E(vib) approximately 550-750 cm(-1)) vibrational features, assigned to nu(30)(a(1)), nu(32)(b(2)), and nu(31)nu(38)(a(1)), have been interrogated under ambient, bulk-gas conditions, with term energies determined for the symmetric and antisymmetric (tunneling) components of each enabling the attendant tunneling-induced bifurcations of 1.070(9), 0.61(3), and 0.07(2) cm(-1) to be extracted. The dependence of tunneling rate (or hydron migration efficiency) on vibrational motion is discussed in terms of corresponding atomic displacements and permutation-inversion symmetries for the tropolone skeleton.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Murdock
authors.forename: Lori A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: Patrick H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Vaccaro