JOURNAL

OF MOLECULAR

SPECTROSCOPY

153,73-80 ( 1992 )

The Infrared Emission Spectrum of Gaseous AIF

HARTMUT

G. HEDDERICH

AND

PETER F. BERNATH

.2

Centre for Molecular Beams and Laser Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada ML 3GI
The high-resolution infrared emission spectrum of aluminum monofluoride has been observed
with a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer. More than 500 rovibrational Iines from bands
with o = 1 + 0 to u = 5 -+ 4 were assigned. The infrared data have been combing with previous
microwave and millimeter-wave transition frequencies from the literature to yield improved Dunham coefficients for the X Z+ ekctronic ground state of AIF. Q 1992 Academic pm, hc.
INTRODUCTION

At high temperatures aluminum monofluoride is easily produced in the gas phase

by heating A1F3 or a mixture of AlF3 and Al. There is chemical evidence that AlF is
the stable constituent of aluminum-fluorine
systems at high temperatures ( I ).
AIF has been the subject of numerous spectroscopic studies. The electronic spectra
of AIF were recorded both in emission (2-7) as well as in absorption ( 7-13). An
excellent overview of the electronic spectra was given by Barrow et al. (13). The
microwave spectrum has been intensively studied ( 14-18). A compilation of the data
can be found in Huber and Her&ergs book ( 29).
AlF has also been observed to give stimulated infrared emission (laser action) in
an exploding wire experiment (20). Visible chemiluminescence has been observed
from the reaction of Al vapor with various fluorine containing molecules (21-23).
Dyke et al. have reported the photoelectron spectrum (24). Recently, Dearden et al.
(2.5) observed Rydberg states of AlF by using resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) spectroscopy. In addition there are several excellent ab initio calculations of the molecular properties of the ground and excited states of AIF (26-28).
In the infrared region a matrix isolation spectrum (29) and a diode laser spectrum
(30) have been studied in detail. In this work we present the Fourier transform emission
spectrum of AIF. The spectrum was accidentally found during an attempt to measure
the infrared spectrum of MgF2.
EXPERIMENTAL

DETAILS

The high-resolution infrared emission spectrum of AlF was observed with the
McMath Fourier transform spectrometer of the National Solar Observatory at Kitt
Peak. The unapodized resolution was 0.0055 cm- with liquid helium cooled As:Si
detectors and a KC1 beamsplitter. The spectral bandpass was limited to 500- 1400
cm- by an InSb filter for the upper limit and by the detector response and the transmission of the KC1 beamsplitter for the lower limit.
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-~hoIar.
2 Also: Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721.
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0022-2852/92 $5.00
Copyright 0

1992 by Academx

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in any form reserved.

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Wavenumber (cm-)
FIG. 1.A portion of the high resolution infrared emission spectrum of AIF and LiF (8 IO-8 I5 cm-).

Solid MgF2 was heated to about 1500 K in an alumina tube furnace. The apparatus
used was described in detail in the observation
of the SiS emission spectrum (31).
Deposition
of solid material onto the KBr windows was avoided by pressurizing the
system with 5 Torr of argon. The temperature of the furnace, as measured by a chromelalumel thermocouple
placed between the heating elements and the ceramic tube, was
increased at a steady rate of about 5 Kjmin.
A series of spectra were taken as the
furnace heated up and then cooled down. Initially a globar was placed behind the
tube furnace and its image was focused on the g-mm aperture of the Fourier transform
spectrometer.
No absorption spectra were observed, but when the globar was shut off
(at a temperature
of about 1300 K) a strong emission feature was monitored.
At
higher temperatures
the line intensities increased. The maximum temperature
which
is accessible with our current oven system is about 1500 K and it was at this temperature
that the best emission spectrum was obtained. The emission signal decreased rapidly
as the furnace cooled and disappeared at about 1200 K.
RESULTS

The emission features were observed in the region where the infrared spectrum of
MgF2 was expected. However, the high-resolution
spectrum showed a pattern typical
of a diatomic molecule. After some thought and a literature search, we found that the
emission spectrum belonged to LiF (32). At higher temperatures
MgF2 could react
with water, which is always present in our system, and form HF. Pure rotational lines
of HF were observed in the spectrum (33, 34). The HF reacted with Li impurities
and formed LiF (33). After assigning the LiF spectrum, several hundred emission
lines with weaker intensities remained (Fig. 1). A literature search showed that these
lines belong to AlF (30). The explanation
for this observation
is, presumably,
the
reaction of HF with the alumina tube at high temperature.

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OF AlF

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The spectral analysis program PC-DECOMP, developed by J. W. Brault, was used

for data analysis. The rotational line profiles were fit to Voigt lineshape functions.
The strong lines show a ringing caused by the sin x/x lineshape function of the

TABLE II
Dunham Coefficients for AIF in cm-

constant
Y,,

YXl
Y30

,32385 (15)

802

,32430 (148)

-4 ,849 536 (98)

-4 ,849 45 (90)

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0.019312(157)

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103 Y,l

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0.552480296(49)
214 (60)

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103 Y*,

10 F31
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0.0503

(24)

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109 YIP

1 854 8 (80)

109 Y**

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Ref. (30)

this work
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-4 ,984 385 (248)
0.017274(124)
0.0331(178)
-1.046651(424)
1 ,7005 (289)
0.0689(37)

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EMISSION OF AIF

Fourier transform spectrometer. The ringing was eliminated by using the filter fitting
routine available in PC-DECOMP. The signal-to-noise ratio for the strongest lines
belonging to the fundamental band of AlF was about 50 and the resulting resolutionenhanced linewidth was 0.0005 cm-. Pure rotational lines of HF were used for absolute
calibration (1tO.0002 cm- ) of the spectrum (34). For this calibration the HF absorption
lines, taken in a spectrum at lower temperature, were calibrated against CO:! (35).
The AlF line positions are listed in Table I.
Bands with v = I --* 0 to v = 5 + 4 of AlF were picked out by using an interactive
color Loomis-Wood program which runs on a 486/33 MHz microcomputer. Data
reduction was made by using the well known Dunham equation (36)
T(v,

J) = C Ye
Li

[J(J+

I)].

Pure rotational transitions ( 16, 17) were corrected for the effect of hype&e structure
and included in the final fit. The Dunham coefficients are shown in Table II.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The National Solar Observatory is operated by the Association of Unive~ities for research in Astronomy,
Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation. We thank J. W. Brault, R. EngIeman, Jr., C. I.
Frum, and J. Wagner for assistance in recording the spectra. This work was supported by the Astronautics
Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base. CA, and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada (NSERC). Acknowledgment is made to the Petroleum Research Fund. administered by the American
Chemical Society, for partial support of this work. H.G.H. thanks the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
for a postdoctoral scholarship.
RECEIVED:

October 25, 1991

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