Disulfide Bond in Diethyl Disulfide: A Rotational Spectroscopic Study.
Jiaqi ZhangXiaolong LiQian GouGang FengPublished in: The journal of physical chemistry. A (2018)
Diethyl disulfide was investigated by pulsed jet Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. The spectroscopic study was complemented by ab initio calculations. The first two most stable conformers predicted at the MP2/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory were observed in the supersonic expansion. Two 13C and one 34S isotopologues for the most stable conformer ( GGG) and two 34S isotopes for the second most stable form ( GGG') were also assigned in natural abundance, respectively, allowing a thorough investigation of the molecular structure and conformation. The relative population ratio of the two conformers in the supersonic expansion was estimated to be about 4:1.