An algorithm for the estimation of anharmonicity from a Morse potential
Abstract The wavefunctions of the ground and first excited state in a Morse potential are calculated and plotted, and the expectation values of the bond lengths
Microwave and infrared spectra of deuterium-substituted germyl halides and the structures of the germyl halides
Abstract We have obtained microwave spectra of fully and partially deuterated germyl halides GeD3X and GeHD2X (X = F, Cl, Br, I) and analysed the infrared spectra in the GeH stretching region of the asymmetric species. The resulting Ao and Bo values have been combined with existing data on GeH3X to give improved structures for the germyl halides. The values of the HGeX angles obtained show a correlation with GeH stretching frequencies, as in methyl compounds, but there appears to be no such correlation between stretching frequencies and GeH bond lengths.
The first ground cricket (Orthoptera: Trigonidiidae: Nemobiinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber
Abstract A new genus and species, Birmaninemobius hirsutus gen. et sp. nov., is described on the basis of a well-preserved orthopteran specimen in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber and attributed to the subfamily Nemobiinae (ground crickets) of the family Trigonidiidae (Grylloidea). As the first record of Nemobiinae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, this new taxon not only provides novel morphological diversity in ground crickets but also indicates that the ground crickets lived in Burma (Tethyan islands) as early as the mid-Cretaceous.