Raman spectroscopy of vapors at elevated temperatures Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The most effective way to obtain high quality vapor-phase Raman spectra is to heat the samples to increase their vapor pressure. Many samples can be heated to 350 C and higher without decomposition. We have designed a simple Raman cell to allow these high temperature studies to be carried out. The high-temperature Raman spectra of nine molecules will be presented and discussed. Most of these are non-rigid molecules containing aromatic rings for which vibrational potential energy surfaces have been determined from their spectra. Two molecules (p-cresol and 3-methylindole) are model compounds for amino acids and their vapor-phase spectra are characteristic of environments with no hydrogen bonding. 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE

author list (cited authors)

  • Laane, J., Haller, K., Sakurai, S., Morris, K., Autrey, D., Arp, Z., Chiang, W. Y., & Combs, A.

citation count

  • 20

complete list of authors

  • Laane, J||Haller, K||Sakurai, S||Morris, K||Autrey, D||Arp, Z||Chiang, WY||Combs, A

publication date

  • May 2003