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THEORETICAL MODELING OF INFRARED SPECTRA OF ASPIRIN AND ITS DEUTERATED DERIVATIVE.

M. BOCZAR, M. J. WÓJCIK, K. SZCZEPONEK, D. JAMRÓZ, A. ZIEBA AND BOZENA KAWALEK, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, 30-060 Kraków, Ingardena 3, Poland.

Theoretical simulation of the nus stretching band is presented for aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) and its OD derivative at 300 and 77 K. The simulation takes into account an adiabatic coupling between the high-frequency O-H(D) stretching and the low-frequency intermolecular O...O stretching modes, linear and quadratic distortions of the potential energy for the low-frequency vibrations in the excited state of the O-H(D) stretching vibration, resonance interaction between two hydrogen bonds in the dimer, and Fermi resonance between the O-H(D) stretching and the overtone of the O-H(D) bending vibrations. The effect of deuteration and the temperature has been successfully reproduced by our model calculations.Infrared, far-infarared, Raman and low-frequency Raman spectra of the polycrystalline aspirin have been measured. The geometry and experimental frequencies is compared with the results of our B3LYP/6-31++G** calculations.