On. Ulenikov et al., GROUND-STATE SUPERCOMBINATION DIFFERENCES AS THE METHOD OF DETERMINATION OF SPLITTINGS FOR FAINTLY POLAR SYMMETRICAL-TOP MOLECULES - THE CHD3 MOLECULE, Chemical physics letters, 268(3-4), 1997, pp. 242-248
A method, called the procedure of supercombination differences, has be
en developed in order to determine the a(1)-a(2) (K = 3) ground state
splittings for symmetric top molecules from infrared spectra. By formi
ng normal combination differences corresponding to both the components
and then their differences the splittings were evaluated for the CHD3
molecule up to J = 20 with the aid of 11 rotation-vibration bands. By
applying the theoretical J dependence of the splittings they could be
well explained with one parameter 2h(3) = 2.2960(90) x 10(-10) cm(-1)
.