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Infrared spectra of tetrazole (CN isolated in an argon matrix (T \10 K) and in the solid state (at room 4H2) temperature) were investigated. In the crystalline phase, tetrazole exists in its 1H-tautomeric form and new assignments of the vibrational spectra (both infrared and Raman) of this phase are presented. The infrared spectrum of the matrix-isolated monomeric form of tetrazole is now reported and assigned for the Ðrst time, showing essentially the expected signature of the 2H-tetrazole tautomer. From relative intensities of the
infrared bands ascribable to the two tautomers, the amount of the 1H-tautomer in the argon matrix was estimated to be ca. 10% of the most stable tautomer. Assuming that gas-phase relative populations of the two
tautomers could be efficiently trapped in the argon matrix during deposition, the energy di erence between 1H- and 2H-tetrazole (*E was then obtained. The experimental value, kJ mol~1, 1Hh2H) *E1Hh2H\6.95^1.50 now determined for the Ðrst time, compares fairly well with the theoretical predictions for the molecule in
vacuum (e.g., the zero point vibrational energy corrected energy di erence obtained at the B3LYP/6È31G* level of theory is 9.96 kJ mol~1).
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Bugalho, Susana C. S.; Maçôas, Ermelinda M. S.; Lurdes S. Cristiano, M.; Fausto, Rui. Low temperature matrix-isolation and solid state vibrational spectra of tetrazole, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 3, 17, 3541-3547, 2001.
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Royal Society of Chemistry