Methoxy is a doublet radical in a degenerate
electronic gound state with 2E3/2
below 2E1/2.
The parameter set was taken from
(1) J.-T. Spaniol, O. Chitarra, O. Pirali, M.-A. Martin-Drumel
and H. S. P. Müller,
2025, J. Phys. Chem. A 129, accepted.
A large fraction of the data, between about 352 and
854 GHz are from that work. Additional millimeter wave
data up to 199 GHz were published by
(2) Y. Endo, S. Saito, E. Hirota,
1984, J. Chem. Phys. 81, 122.
Further millimeter and submillimeter wave data between
242 and 372 GHz were taken from
(3) T. Momose, Y. Endo, E. Hirota, T. Shida,
1988, J. Chem. Phys. 88, 5338.
A small number of transition frequencies were
published by
(4) J. Laas and S. L. Widicus Weaver,
2017, Astrophys. J. 835, 46;
several of these last transitions are the same as
the ones from (3), some are new. A small number
of transition frequencies from (3) and (4) were treated
slightly differently than reported because of blending,
and two transition frequencies from (4) were omitted
because of large residuals.
The calculated transition frequencies should be reliable
for at least most observational purposes; frequencies
with calculated uncertainties exceeding 0.2 MHz should
be viewed with increasing caution.
The quantum numbers in the standard entry are
N, K, v, t, and F,
where v indicates the l components,
and t is an aggregate spin number with
t / N – F / J – F / sym / Itot
0 / –2.0 / –1.5 / 0 / 1.5
1 / –1.0 / –0.5 / 2 / 0.5
2 / –1.0 / –0.5 / 4 / 0.5
3 / –1.0 / –0.5 / 0 / 1.5
4 / –1.0 / –1.5 / 0 / 1.5
5 / 0.0 / 0.5 / 2 / 0.5
6 / 0.0 / 0.5 / 4 / 0.5
7 / 0.0 / –0.5 / 2 / 0.5
8 / 0.0 / –0.5 / 4 / 0.5
9 / 0.0 / 0.5 / 0 / 1.5
10 / 0.0 / –0.5 / 0 / 1.5
11 / 1.0 / –0.5 / 2 / 0.5
12 / 1.0 / –0.5 / 4 / 0.5
13 / 1.0 / –1.5 / 0 / 1.5
14 / 1.0 / –0.5 / 0 / 1.5
15 / 1.0 / –1.5 / 0 / 1.5
The partition function refers to sufficiently high
rotational states of the ground vibrational state.
Information on the
vibrational partition function is available.
The dipole moment was taken from a quatum chemical
calculation by
(5) C. F. Jackels,
1982, J. Chem. Phys. 76, 505.
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