Av. Burenin, CONFIGURATIONAL DEGENERACY OF EXCHANGE TYPE IN THE VIBRATION-ROTATIONSPECTRUM OF A NONRIGID MOLECULE, Journal of structural chemistry, 36(1), 1995, pp. 6-12
In the vibration-rotation spectrum of a nonrigid molecule, the degener
acy that is clue to several independent energetically equivalent equil
ibrium configurations related by exchange transitions ir described usi
ng the concept of configurational spin. For the CH3OH molecule with th
ree independent configurations related by exchange transitions occurri
ng by internal rotation, the algebraic and symmetric properties of thi
s spin are analyzed, and effective operators of physical quantities ar
e qualitatively constructed based on exchange degeneracy.