Accurate spectroscopy of polycyclic aromatic compounds: from the rotational spectrum of fluoren-9-one in the millimeter wave region to its infrared spectrum Assimo Maris, Camilla Calabrese, Sonia Melandri, and Susana Blanco Supplemental Material Table I-SM. Experimental rotational transition frequency (ν/MHz) lines of fluoren-9-one. J”(K-1”)-J'(K-1') ν νexp.-νcalc. J”(K-1”, K+1”)-J'(K-1', K+1')a ν νexp.-νcalc. 24 (24) - 23 (23) 68458.54 -0.08 33 (18) - 32 (17) 66173.33 0.01 25 (24) - 24 (23) 69467.34 -0.06 34 (18) - 33 (17) 67165.88 -0.08 23 (23) - 22 (22) 65567.13 -0.02 35 (18) - 34 (17) 68156.00 0.05 22 (21) - 21 (20) 60793.18 0.19 36 (18) - 35 (17) 69143.00 0.00 23 (21) - 22 (20) 61801.85 0.12 37 (18) - 36 (17) 70126.78 -0.02 23 (20) - 22 (19) 59918.70 -0.04 29 (17) - 28 (16) 60285.52 0.00 24 (20) - 23 (19) 60927.10 0.06 30 (17) - 29 (16) 61283.11 0.02 25 (20) - 24 (19) 61935.03 0.02 31 (17) - 30 (16) 62278.44 0.01 26 (20) - 25 (19) 62942.62 0.08 32 (17) - 31 (16) 63271.25 -0.02 27 (20) - 26 (19) 63949.57 0.03 33 (17) - 32 (16) 64261.29 -0.02 28 (20) - 27 (19) 64956.00 0.10 34 (17) - 33 (16) 65248.17 -0.05 29 (20) - 28 (19) 65961.58 0.07 35 (17) - 34 (16) 66231.64 -0.02 30 (20) - 29 (19) 66966.27 0.02 36 (17) - 35 (16) 67211.27 0.03 31 (20) - 30 (19) 67969.99 0.01 37 (17) - 36 (16) 68186.59 0.05 32 (20) - 31 (19) 68972.52 -0.05 38 (17) - 37 (16) 69157.13 0.03 33 (20) - 32 (19) 69973.88 0.01 39 (17) - 38 (16) 70122.45 0.05 19 (19) - 18 (18) 54001.04 -0.02 31 (16) - 30 (15) 60366.61 0.00 20 (19) - 19 (18) 55009.78 -0.11 32 (16) - 31 (15) 61353.36 -0.01 25 (19) - 24 (18) 60050.56 -0.05 33 (16) - 32 (15) 62336.32 -0.07 26 (19) - 25 (18) 61057.34 -0.04 34 (16) - 33 (15) 63315.20 -0.04 27 (19) - 26 (18) 62063.40 -0.03 35 (16) - 34 (15) 64289.43 0.01 28 (19) - 27 (18) 63068.61 -0.02 36 (16) - 35 (15) 65258.36 -0.04 29 (19) - 28 (18) 64072.85 0.01 32 (15) - 31 (14) 59419.03 0.09 30 (19) - 29 (18) 65075.90 -0.01 33 (15) - 32 (14) 60391.80 0.00 31 (19) - 30 (18) 66077.63 -0.04 34 (15) - 33 (14) 61358.95 0.07 32 (19) - 31 (18) 67078.04 0.07 35 (15) - 34 (14) 62319.56 -0.11 19 (18) - 18 (17) 52118.29 -0.02 36 (15, 22) - 35 (14, 21) 63272.68 0.02 20 (18) - 19 (17) 53126.95 -0.07 36 (15, 21) - 35 (14, 22) 63273.56 0.02 25 (18) - 24 (17) 58165.07 -0.01 37 (15, 23) - 36 (14, 22) 64217.45 0.07 27 (18) - 26 (17) 60175.44 -0.02 37 (15, 22) - 36 (14, 23) 64219.39 0.09 28 (18) - 27 (17) 61179.04 0.01 27 (14) - 26 (13) 52577.06 0.02 29 (18) - 28 (17) 62181.27 -0.02 28 (14) - 27 (13) 53563.41 0.02 30 (18) - 29 (17) 63181.95 -0.11 29 (14) - 28 (13) 54545.41 0.07 31 (18) - 30 (17) 64181.15 0.02 30 (14) - 29 (13) 55522.37 0.09 32 (18) - 31 (17) 65178.30 0.00 a Asymmetry degenerate K-1 transition doublets are indicated as J”(K-1”)-J'(K-1') 1 Table II-SM. Vibrational properties of fluoren-9-one calculated at the B3LYP/cc-pVTZ level: C2v symmetry representation, harmonic and anharmonic (fundamental and first overtones) wavenumbers (ν/cm-1), reduced masses (μ/u), force constants (k/mDyn Å-1), infrared intensities (Int./km mol-1), a and vibro-rotational coupling constants (α/MHz). Harmonic approximation data are given also for the MP2/cc-pVTZ level of calculation. B3LYP Q(01) Q(02) Q(03) Q(04) Q(05) Q(06) Q(07) Q(08) Q(09) Q(10) Q(11) Q(12) Q(13) Q(14) Q(15) Q(16) Q(17) Q(18) Q(19) Q(20) Q(21) Q(22) Q(23) Q(24) Q(25) Q(26) Q(27) Q(28) Q(29) Q(30) Q(31) Q(32) Q(33) Q(34) Q(35) Q(36) Q(37) Q(38) Q(39) Q(40) Q(41) Q(42) Q(43) Q(44) Q(45) Q(46) Q(47) Q(48) Q(49) Q(50) Q(51) Q(52) Q(53) Q(54) Q(55) Q(56) Q(57) Q(58) Q(59) Q(60) Γirr. A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 A1 B2 B2 A1 A1 B2 B2 A1 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 B1 A2 B1 A2 B2 B1 A2 B1 A2 A1 B1 A2 A1 B1 B2 B2 A2 A1 B2 B1 A2 A1 B1 B2 A2 A1 B1 A2 B1 νharm. μ k Int. 3195 1.10 6.60 0.9 3194 1.10 6.59 38.8 3186 1.09 6.54 26.1 3185 1.09 6.53 0.9 3178 1.09 6.48 2.9 3177 1.09 6.47 3.2 3168 1.09 6.42 0.1 3166 1.09 6.42 2.8 1784 12.86 24.12 257.8 1651 6.86 11.01 75.9 1637 6.45 10.18 29.7 1634 6.65 10.46 4.5 1628 5.52 8.63 18.7 1509 2.82 3.78 0.4 1508 2.48 3.32 1.3 1490 2.23 2.92 44.9 1478 2.49 3.21 0.8 1402 4.08 4.73 0.8 1329 3.07 3.20 38.7 1324 2.00 2.07 11.6 1315 1.72 1.76 3.5 1227 2.62 2.33 0.0 1207 2.68 2.29 43.0 1188 1.20 1.00 0.3 1181 1.20 0.99 3.4 1174 2.34 1.90 13.3 1117 1.83 1.35 25.6 1104 2.48 1.78 0.0 1057 1.99 1.31 0.2 1041 2.27 1.45 0.2 1025 5.28 3.27 0.9 1011 1.32 0.79 0.0 1009 1.32 0.79 982 1.44 0.81 2.5 978 1.40 0.79 933 7.24 3.71 53.4 907 1.44 0.70 0.1 906 1.49 0.72 840 3.04 1.26 4.3 807 2.47 0.95 790 6.28 2.31 0.1 760 1.41 0.48 109.4 763 1.54 0.53 739 5.79 1.86 0.0 694 4.25 1.21 14.7 668 6.90 1.81 4.8 634 7.08 1.68 1.6 574 3.29 0.64 567 8.68 1.65 0.6 513 5.69 0.88 2.7 460 4.26 0.53 4.3 440 3.13 0.36 413 6.59 0.66 0.1 412 3.21 0.32 0.8 285 9.41 0.45 5.0 271 4.75 0.21 206 4.63 0.12 0.2 150 7.10 0.09 0.4 132 3.81 0.04 98 4.67 0.03 2.6 νanh. Int. νovertone Int. 3064 1.0 6119 0.02 3065 36.0 6094 0.02 3062 28.0 6120 0.00 3072 5.8 6130 0.00 3057 2.8 6079 0.00 3057 2.7 6104 0.00 3025 0.3 6063 0.41 3016 3.2 6041 0.59 1751 228.2 3484 5.03 1612 60.5 3222 0.00 1598 4.4 3194 0.07 1598 2.4 3194 0.23 1589 16.0 3180 0.18 1477 0.5 2951 0.00 1478 2.7 2952 0.01 1462 28.6 2921 0.03 1446 0.7 2892 0.00 1372 0.7 2742 0.04 1300 11.7 2599 0.16 1296 16.2 2590 0.01 1285 2.4 2577 0.02 1201 0.0 2399 0.01 1182 24.7 2363 0.19 1175 0.0 2351 0.01 1169 6.6 2339 0.04 1153 7.5 2305 0.00 1097 21.2 2193 0.13 1083 0.2 2174 0.00 1041 0.3 2081 0.00 1026 0.1 2050 0.00 1004 0.7 2016 0.00 1009 0.3 2023 0.07 1007 0.0 2018 0.09 966 0.4 1933 0.02 964 0.0 1930 0.11 918 49.6 1838 9.69 890 0.0 1780 0.04 897 0.0 1797 0.31 830 1.9 1659 0.74 811 0.0 1624 0.03 778 0.1 1556 0.00 753 0.2 1505 0.27 749 99.3 1497 0.01 727 0.0 1455 0.00 690 16.5 1380 0.22 661 4.1 1322 0.00 627 1.2 1254 0.00 573 0.0 1147 0.11 564 0.5 1119 0.02 505 2.4 1008 0.00 454 3.6 909 0.02 433 0.0 866 0.00 407 0.2 815 0.00 401 0.6 802 0.00 279 5.0 560 0.03 269 0.0 539 0.00 201 0.2 403 0.00 155 0.3 310 0.03 138 0.0 277 0.00 100 2.7 199 0.01 αa 0.23 0.23 0.18 0.20 0.18 0.20 0.14 0.15 2.32 0.88 0.93 0.84 0.69 0.54 0.04 0.72 0.10 0.69 0.99 0.47 -0.25 -0.26 1.98 -0.38 -0.05 1.10 0.20 -0.18 0.13 0.26 0.05 0.72 0.75 0.42 0.50 0.81 0.37 0.38 -0.14 0.27 0.21 0.29 0.32 -0.20 0.32 -0.30 -0.53 0.90 0.34 -0.24 -0.08 0.16 -0.04 0.17 -1.29 1.93 -1.96 -0.53 0.03 2.38 αb 0.06 0.06 0.09 0.08 0.08 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.08 0.54 0.52 0.36 0.50 0.32 0.27 0.04 0.33 0.55 0.34 0.14 0.37 0.60 0.14 0.08 0.02 0.11 0.11 0.13 -0.03 -0.01 0.12 0.13 0.11 0.12 0.12 0.09 0.05 0.06 0.13 -0.24 0.45 0.01 0.01 0.17 -0.24 0.18 0.12 -0.01 0.00 0.07 0.01 -0.14 0.11 -0.09 -0.27 -0.23 -0.25 0.14 0.23 -0.28 αc 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.22 0.01 0.52 0.27 0.50 0.24 0.18 -0.09 0.43 0.32 0.25 0.14 0.24 0.33 0.29 0.08 0.06 0.23 0.11 0.05 0.22 0.10 0.14 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.20 0.00 0.00 -0.01 -0.03 0.13 -0.03 -0.03 0.08 -0.04 0.09 0.06 -0.07 0.06 0.10 -0.09 -0.14 0.14 -0.13 0.02 -0.19 0.06 -0.21 -0.15 -0.28 MP2 Q(01) Q(02) Q(03) Q(04) Q(05) Q(06) Q(07) Q(08) Q(09) Q(10) Q(11) Q(12) Q(13) Q(14) Q(15) Q(16) Q(17) Q(18) Q(19) Q(20) Q(21) Q(22) Q(23) Q(24) Q(25) Q(26) Q(27) Q(28) Q(29) Q(30) Q(31) Q(32) Q(33) Q(34) Q(35) Q(36) Q(37) Q(38) Q(39) Q(40) Q(41) Q(42) Q(43) Q(44) Q(45) Q(46) Q(47) Q(48) Q(49) Q(50) Q(51) Q(52) Q(53) Q(54) Q(55) Q(56) Q(57) Q(58) Q(59) Q(60) Γirr. A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 A1 B2 A1 B2 B2 A1 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 B1 A2 B1 A2 B2 B1 A2 B1 A1 A2 B1 A1 A2 B1 B2 B2 A1 A2 B2 B1 A2 A1 B1 B2 A2 A1 B1 A2 B1 ν harm. μ k Int. 3236 1.10 6.78 1.4 3235 1.10 6.77 25.8 3225 1.09 6.71 13.7 3224 1.09 6.70 0.1 3217 1.09 6.64 2.0 3215 1.09 6.64 0.8 3206 1.09 6.58 0.0 3205 1.09 6.58 1.8 1759 12.93 23.59 159.6 1652 7.30 11.74 55.0 1647 7.18 11.46 22.2 1636 7.32 11.56 2.4 1636 6.35 10.02 4.1 1528 6.67 9.17 0.1 1501 2.70 3.58 8.0 1497 2.98 3.93 0.9 1477 2.33 2.99 44.7 1468 7.85 9.96 2.5 1452 2.39 2.97 1.9 1319 1.92 1.96 1.1 1317 1.68 1.72 55.5 1249 2.11 1.94 0.6 1228 2.52 2.24 48.0 1184 1.58 1.31 7.3 1178 1.11 0.91 5.1 1173 1.40 1.13 7.1 1120 1.63 1.21 15.8 1099 2.52 1.80 0.0 1049 1.81 1.17 0.1 1038 2.17 1.38 0.5 1017 6.25 3.80 2.8 969 1.21 0.67 0.1 967 1.23 0.68 948 1.37 0.73 2.1 944 1.34 0.71 924 7.20 3.62 43.6 887 1.28 0.59 0.0 879 1.27 0.58 799 2.42 0.91 30.8 780 6.17 2.21 0.0 771 1.36 0.48 741 1.88 0.61 92.5 730 5.70 1.79 0.1 707 5.42 1.60 663 5.89 1.53 8.8 653 6.86 1.72 5.4 617 7.02 1.58 1.6 561 8.64 1.60 0.2 557 3.82 0.70 509 5.75 0.88 1.5 446 4.47 0.52 3.7 421 3.33 0.35 411 6.59 0.66 0.1 399 3.38 0.32 0.9 276 9.28 0.42 4.8 265 4.83 0.20 200 4.62 0.11 0.2 144 7.17 0.09 0.1 128 3.82 0.04 94 4.67 0.02 2.6 a The conversion factor to cm molecule-1 is cf=6.023-1 10-18. b Because of the C2v symmetry selection rules the A out-of-plane vibrational normal modes are not infrared active. 2 2 Table III-SM. Vibrational properties of 9H-fluorene calculated at the B3LYP/cc-pVTZ level: C2v symmetry representation, harmonic and anharmonic (fundamental and first overtones) wavenumbers (ν/cm-1), reduced masses (μ/u), force constants (k/mDyn Å-1), infrared intensities (Int./km mol-1),a and vibro-rotational coupling constants (α/MHz). Q(01) Q(02) Q(03) Q(04) Q(05) Q(06) Q(07) Q(08) Q(09) Q(10) Q(11) Q(12) Q(13) Q(14) Q(15) Q(16) Q(17) Q(18) Q(19) Q(20) Q(21) Q(22) Q(23) Q(24) Q(25) Q(26) Q(27) Q(28) Q(29) Q(30) Q(31) Q(32) Q(33) Q(34) Q(35) Q(36) Q(37) Q(38) Q(39) Q(40) Q(41) Q(42) Q(43) Q(44) Q(45) Q(46) Q(47) Q(48) Q(49) Q(50) Q(51) Q(52) Q(53) Q(54) Q(55) Q(56) Q(57) Q(58) Q(59) Q(60) Q(61) Q(62) Q(63) Γirr A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 B1 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 A1 A1 B2 B2 A1 A1 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 A2 B2 A1 B2 A1 B2 B1 A2 B1 A2 B1 A2 B1 A1 B2 A2 B1 A1 A2 B1 A1 B2 A2 B2 B2 B1 A2 B1 A1 A2 B1 A1 A2 B1 νharm. 3190 3189 3178 3176 3167 3165 3160 3159 3045 3023 1650 1649 1624 1620 1515 1512 1490 1483 1452 1376 1347 1333 1325 1255 1223 1210 1195 1183 1179 1166 1133 1121 1056 1048 1029 996 994 980 957 938 887 877 856 815 804 759 758 747 717 646 638 581 555 500 486 441 425 420 277 245 217 138 99 μ 1.10 1.10 1.09 1.09 1.09 1.09 1.09 1.09 1.10 1.06 6.60 6.19 6.33 5.39 2.55 2.79 2.20 2.30 1.14 4.37 2.23 2.52 1.86 2.68 1.77 2.63 1.61 1.15 1.28 1.14 1.70 2.07 2.12 2.26 6.13 1.28 1.29 1.84 1.41 1.60 1.44 1.29 5.29 3.84 2.31 1.28 5.35 1.52 2.99 6.14 6.93 3.46 5.63 4.11 2.93 2.87 2.86 6.46 4.45 2.14 4.37 3.69 4.27 k 6.57 6.57 6.50 6.49 6.43 6.42 6.39 6.39 6.02 5.70 10.58 9.91 9.83 8.34 3.45 3.76 2.88 2.98 1.42 4.88 2.39 2.64 1.92 2.49 1.56 2.27 1.36 0.95 1.05 0.92 1.29 1.53 1.39 1.47 3.82 0.75 0.75 1.04 0.76 0.83 0.67 0.59 2.29 1.50 0.88 0.43 1.81 0.50 0.91 1.51 1.66 0.69 1.02 0.60 0.41 0.33 0.31 0.67 0.20 0.08 0.12 0.04 0.02 Int. 4.8 48.4 40.8 5.2 4.1 1.9 8.3 2.8 8.2 15.2 3.5 0.0 0.2 1.4 7.8 0.1 19.9 10.0 10.9 0.3 5.6 4.0 0.2 3.4 3.4 2.2 3.6 0.0 0.3 0.2 2.5 4.1 0.6 3.8 0.0 3.5 0.0 0.7 0.1 0.3 111.5 0.0 5.8 0.3 7.5 0.1 0.3 0.8 5.6 0.4 6.5 0.2 0.5 αa 0.43 0.44 0.36 0.39 0.32 0.34 0.39 0.38 0.05 0.24 1.49 1.42 1.55 1.46 0.18 1.10 0.99 0.06 0.38 1.27 1.16 1.27 -0.16 0.73 1.23 0.41 0.02 -0.50 -0.09 1.24 0.17 -0.61 0.57 0.79 0.04 1.46 1.54 0.90 1.13 0.47 0.52 -0.30 1.16 0.09 1.14 0.66 -0.32 0.79 -0.35 1.10 -1.47 1.32 0.55 -1.98 0.17 0.64 0.41 -0.27 2.16 -0.51 -3.46 0.29 5.10 αb 0.06 0.06 0.09 0.08 0.10 0.10 0.07 0.07 0.01 0.02 0.52 0.60 0.33 0.38 0.27 0.34 0.09 0.29 -0.01 0.64 0.24 0.25 0.43 0.49 0.07 0.24 0.15 0.03 0.00 0.06 0.12 0.17 -0.07 0.00 0.13 0.11 0.09 0.11 0.09 0.06 0.05 0.05 0.12 0.14 0.01 0.01 0.25 -0.01 -0.01 0.01 0.06 -0.01 0.01 0.05 0.01 -0.12 -0.08 0.11 -0.20 0.03 -0.26 0.28 -0.39 αc 0.05 0.05 0.07 0.06 0.07 0.07 0.06 0.06 0.01 0.01 0.11 -0.06 0.83 0.60 0.22 0.31 0.12 0.23 -0.04 0.39 0.28 0.26 0.32 0.39 0.17 0.25 0.16 0.08 0.12 -0.03 0.10 0.14 0.20 0.13 0.18 0.01 0.01 0.03 -0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.04 0.24 -0.03 -0.03 0.17 -0.05 -0.01 0.08 0.07 -0.08 0.10 0.07 -0.08 -0.15 -0.14 0.16 -0.21 -0.11 0.03 -0.14 -0.40 νanh. 3051 3052 3046 3047 3032 3030 3010 3009 2891 2903 1610 1607 1584 1581 1482 1478 1459 1452 1411 1349 1312 1302 1293 1223 1189 1187 1173 1162 1159 1135 1111 1099 1034 1027 1011 1004 1004 974 962 927 878 860 842 802 799 748 748 741 721 638 632 579 549 491 482 438 421 416 272 244 208 130 98 Int. 0.1 66.0 80.5 10.1 86.8 19.9 83.3 7.9 10.5 17.1 1.0 0.1 0.5 0.8 2.9 0.2 17.2 8.5 7.6 0.1 1.9 4.2 0.1 3.0 1.6 2.1 4.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.6 1.9 1.2 0.3 4.5 0.4 0.0 4.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.0 100.1 0.0 0.0 17.4 0.2 7.1 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.8 0.0 5.9 0.3 0.0 5.9 0.2 0.0 0.6 a The conversion factor to cm molecule-1 is cf=6.023-1 10-18. b Because of the C2v symmetry selection rules the A out-of-plane vibrational normal modes are not infrared active. 2 3 νovertone 6069 6091 6079 6096 6051 6039 6010 6041 5714 5698 3221 3213 3173 3162 2960 2954 2916 2901 2796 2695 2620 2601 2585 2450 2380 2372 2346 2327 2318 2263 2222 2198 2067 2053 2022 2018 2012 1949 1929 1854 1757 1719 1685 1603 1599 1496 1496 1481 1443 1276 1265 1158 1098 981 965 877 842 831 544 489 416 259 194 Int. 0.02 0.02 0.06 0.06 0.20 0.17 0.11 0.04 1.17 0.32 0.00 0.00 0.25 0.23 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.20 0.01 0.02 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.05 0.05 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.40 0.33 0.07 0.20 0.43 0.15 0.07 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.03 0.05 0.11 0.19 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 Extended references list [1] A toxicological review of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. 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