The molecular structure of 1,3,5,7‐cyclooctatetraene has been studied by a sector‐microphotometer technique using data extending to very much larger scattering angles than were obtained in earlier investigations. An application of the method of least squares to sector‐microphotometer data in electron diffraction worked out by one of us (KH) has led in three refinement stages to unusually precise values for the parameters. The following are the more interesting parameter values with standard errors. It should be noted these results do not include a possible error of up to 0.2% in the scale of the molecule because of uncertainties in the electron wavelength, nor do they include the effect of correlations among the observations on the standard errors, which we estimate might increase the standard errors by as much as the factor 2½. Molecular symmetry .
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December 01 1957
Reinvestigation of the Molecular Structure of 1,3,5,7‐Cyclooctatetraene by Electron Diffraction
O. Bastiansen;
O. Bastiansen
Chemical Institute, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Lise Hedberg;
Lise Hedberg
Chemical Institute, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, and Department of Chemistry, Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon
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Kenneth Hedberg
Kenneth Hedberg
Chemical Institute, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, and Department of Chemistry, Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon
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J. Chem. Phys. 27, 1311–1317 (1957)
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May 14 1957
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Erratum : Reinvestigation of the Molecular Structure of 1,3,5,7‐Cyclooctatetraene
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O. Bastiansen, Lise Hedberg, Kenneth Hedberg; Reinvestigation of the Molecular Structure of 1,3,5,7‐Cyclooctatetraene by Electron Diffraction. J. Chem. Phys. 1 December 1957; 27 (6): 1311–1317. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1743999
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