H2CCO v5 = 1
Ethenone, ketene, v5 = 1
Species tag 042536
Version1*
Date of EntryAug. 2024
ContributorH. S. P. Müller

The pure rotational lines were taken from
(1) R. Hinze, H. Zerbe-Foese, J. Doose, and A. Guarnieri, 1996, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 176, 133.
Infrared data were described in
(2) L. Nemes, D. Luckhaus, M. Quack, and J. W. C. Johns, 2000, J. Mol. Struct. 517, 217;
the lines were kindly communicated by L. Nemes.
An initial fit involved the interacting states v9 = 1, v6 = 1, v5 = 1, v8 = 1, and other "dark" states. The v8 = 1 data were fit somewhat poorly, such that they were omitted, as were paramaters of higher states; the best fit parameters of v8 = 1 were retained as fixed in the final fits. The J values were limited to 30 because of the limited data with microwave accuracies. Calculations of transitions frequencies with Ka exceeding 4 should be viewed with increasing caution as should be those with calculated uncertainties exceeding 0.2 MHz.
Spin-statistics were considered in the calculations. The ortho states are described by Ka even, the para states by Ka odd. The nuclear spin-weights are 3 and 1 for ortho-H2C2O and para-H2C2O, respectively. The partition function values below refer to the ground vibrational state only. Vibrational correction factors have been derived for the main isotopolog in the harmonic approximation for a posteriori corrections of the column densities.
The dipole moment was reported in 1.

Lines Listed336
Frequency / GHz< 613
Max. J30
log STR0-7.5
log STR1-5.0
Isotope Corr. 
Egy / (cm–1)587.428
 µa / D1.3741
 µb / D 
 µc / D 
 A / MHz282378.
 B / MHz10294.27
 C / MHz9937.35
 Q(300.0)10354.2836
 Q(225.0)6722.5491
 Q(150.0)3658.4549
 Q(75.00)1294.0794
 Q(37.50)457.8698
 Q(18.75)157.3838
 Q(9.375)47.6335
detected in ISM/CSMno


Database maintained by Holger S. P. Müller and Sven Thorwirth, programming by D. Roth and F. Schlöder