Download or read book Far Infrared Spectra of Crystalline Acetylenes, C2h2 and C2d2 written by A. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The far infrared spectra of polycrystalline films of acetylene and fully deuterated acetylene were recorded at 77 k, using a commercial Michelson Interferometer. Two sharp bands are observed for each crystal, and the frequency change on deuteration leads to their assignment as translational lattice modes. From these and other spectroscopic results, deductions concerning the crystal structure, which has not been directly measured at this temperature, are made, and it is concluded that the most likely factor group is of D2h symmetry with two molecules per unit cell on C2h sites, a structure similar to those of crystalline carbon disulfide and the halogens. It is shown that the two-fold axis at the site does not coincide with the molecular axis, as previously implied. (Author).