Date of Award

6-13-2014

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Chemistry, MS

First Advisor

Scott Reeve

Committee Members

Hideya Koizumi; Mark Draganjac

Call Number

LD 251 .A566t 2014 G76

Abstract

Isobutylene is a molecule of great interest for modeling an explosive detection scheme. Previous analyses in the Reeve lab include low resolution (0.125 cm -1) FTIR scans of the 7 and 28 bands of isobutylene. These scans were used as a baseline for calibrating high resolution (0.01 - 0.001 cm -1) QCL scans of the 7 band. Amplitude modulation and frequency modulation techniques were utilized, though the latter was primarily used in this work. Rotational constants, including J', Ka, and Kc values for several peaks were assigned using combination differences.

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