Molecules containing Three or Four Carbon Atoms

by Werner Martienssen (Editor)

This volume contains data on the geometric parameters (internuclear distances, bond angles, dihedral angles of internal rotation etc.) of free polyatomic molecules including free radicals and molecular ions. This survey on structure data is made of four subvolume, each containing the geometric parameters determined in the gas phase either by an analysis of the rotational constants (and sometimes the vibrational constants) obtained from microwave, infrared, Raman, electronic and photoelectron spectroscopy or by an analysis of electron diffraction intensities. Most of the structures listed in the tables are for molecules in the electronic ground state, but structures for electronically excited states have also been included as far as they are available. In this third subvolume, the structure of molecules containing three for four carbon atoms are listed.

489 pages, Hardcover

First published April 27, 2001

About the author

Werner Martienssen was a German physicist; professor emeritus, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. His main research fields were Experimental Physics, Materials Science, Quantum Optics and Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

It might be mentioned that two of his former coworkers and students are now Nobel-laureates. The one is Gerd Binnig, born 1947 in Frankfurt/M. Gerd Binnig was awarded the Nobel-prize in physics 1986 for the development of the scanning tunneling microscope.. The other one is Horst Störmer, he became Nobel-laureate in physics 1998 for the discovery of a new form of a quantum-fluid with fractionally charged excitations.