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SHANSHAN YU, ALIREZA SHAYESTEH, DEJIAN FU, PETER F. BERNATH, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada.

Gaseous HZnCl has been synthesized for the first time in a high-temperature tube furnace with a D.C. discharge of a flowing mixture of pure HCl and zinc vapor. The vibration-rotation emission spectrum of gaseous HZnCl was measured at high resolution using a Fourier transform spectrometer. The H-Zn stretching mode ( ₁) of the H⁶⁴Zn³⁵Cl, H⁶⁶Zn³⁵Cl, H⁶⁸Zn³⁵Cl, and H⁶⁴Zn³⁷Cl species, as well as the 2 ₁ - ₁ hot band of the most abundant isotopologue (H⁶⁴Zn³⁵Cl) were observed near 1966 cm^-1. A least-squares fit was performed for each of four observed isotopologues and their spectroscopic constants were determined.