THE MICROWAVE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF THE VAN-DER-WAALS COMPLEX KR-N2

Pure rotational transitions in the vibrational ground state of the van der Waals complex Kr-N2 have been measured using a cavity microwave Fourier transform spectrometer. For the isotopomers Kr-84-N-14(2), Kr-86-N-14(2), Kr-84-N-15(2), Kr-86-N-15(2) Kr-82-N-15(2) and Kr-83-N-15(2) a-type transitions with K(a) = 0 and 1 have been measured, confirming a C2v symmetry of the complex. A value for the N-14 nuclear quadrupole coupling constant in free nitrogen N-14(2) has been estimated from an analysis of the nuclear hyperfine structure in complexes of N-14(2). N-15 spin-rotation hyperfine structure could be observed and analyzed in the 2(1,2)-1(1,1) and 2(1,1)-1(1,0) rotational transitions of Kr-84-N-15(2). Rotational transitions of Kr-83-N-15(2) showed a nuclear hyperfine splitting due to Kr-83 with nuclear spin 9/2 which has been attributed to the weak bonding with N-15(2). For Kr-84-N-14-N-15 and Kr-86-N-14-N-15, only transitions involving energy levels with K(a) = 0 have been found.