Rotational spectra of the carbon-chain radicals HC5O, HC6O, and HC7O.

Three new free carbon-chain radicals, HC5O, HC6O, and HC7O, and their deuterated isotopic species have been observed by Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy of a supersonic molecular beam. In contrast to the shorter HCnO radicals, these all have linear heavy-atom backbones and 2Pi electronic ground states. Like the isovalent HCnS radicals, the ground states of the HCnO radicals alternate with odd and even numbers of carbon atoms: those of HC5O and HC7O are 2Pi1/2 and that of HC6O is 2Pi3/2. From frequency measurements between 6 and 26 GHz, the rotational constant B, the centrifugal distortion constant D, and the lambda-type doubling and magnetic hyperfine constants have been determined to high precision for each chain. Predicted properties from coupled-cluster calculations are also reported for chains up to HC9O. The production of HCnO radicals for n even was highly favored when O2 was used as the source of oxygen, but those with n odd were best produced with CO.

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