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Science 5 August 1994:
Vol. 265. no. 5173, pp. 756 - 759
DOI: 10.1126/science.11539187
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Science, Vol 265, Issue 5173, 756-759
Copyright © 1994 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Infrared laser spectroscopy of the linear C13 carbon cluster

TF Giesen, A Van Orden, HJ Hwang, RS Fellers, RA Provencal, and RJ Saykally

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.

The infrared absorption spectrum of a linear, 13-atom carbon cluster (C13) has been observed by using a supersonic cluster beam-diode laser spectrometer. Seventy-six rovibrational transitions were measured near 1809 wave numbers and assigned to an antisymmetric stretching fundamental in the 1 sigma g+ ground state of C13. This definitive structural characterization of a carbon cluster in the intermediate size range between C10 and C20 is in apparent conflict with theoretical calculations, which predict that clusters of this size should exist as planar monocyclic rings.


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