Pressure tuning of the Fermi resonance in liquid methanol: implications for the analysis of high-pressure vibrational spectroscopy experiments.

It has been argued that pressure tuning allows for unambiguous assignment of the nonperturbed bands involved in the Fermi coupling of molecular systems in the condensed phase. Here we study the pressure evolution of the Fermi resonance occurring in liquid methanol between the symmetric methyl-stretch fundamental and the methyl-bending overtones. Our analysis is based on Raman experiments in both stretching and bending fundamental regions, which are used to evaluate the effect of pressure on accidental degeneracies occurring in the vibrational spectra of liquid methanol. We emphasize that the difference in frequency of the Fermi doublet constitutes the governing quantity to determine the condition at which the exact degeneracy of the unperturbed modes occurs. Analysis based on the intensity ratio of the Fermi doublet must be disregarded. We confirm the necessity of measuring the full vibrational spectrum under pressure in order to obtain the Fermi coupling parameters unambiguously and to give a correct assignment of the bands involved in the resonance phenomenon. We also analyze the possible occurrence of several simultaneous resonance effects using a multilevel perturbation model. This model provides an appropriate description of the frequencies observed in the experiments over the whole pressure range if we consider that the main resonance occurs between nu3 and 2nu10, in contrast to previous assignments. Our global analysis leads to some general rules concerning measurement and interpretation of high-pressure vibrational spectroscopy experiments.

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