Determination of the rotational barrier in ethane by vibrational spectroscopy and statistical thermodynamics

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1703-1708

  Ercolani, Gianfranco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CURRICULA; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STUDENTS;

MOLECULAR PROPERTIES; ROTATIONAL BARRIER; VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY;

ETHANE;

EID: 27744454974     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed082p1703     Document Type: Article

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