The Rotational Spectrum of SO(2) and the Determination of the Hyperfine Constants and Nuclear Magnetic Shielding Tensors of (33)SO(2) and SO(17)O.

Precise frequencies for the 1(11)-2(02) transition of (33)SO(2) and SO(17)O in natural isotopic abundance have been obtained near 12 GHz by microwave Fourier transform spectroscopy in order to yield improved hyperfine constants. Nuclear spin-rotation coupling constants have been determined experimentally for (33)SO(2) for the first time. The spin-rotation constants have been used to derive nuclear magnetic shielding parameters. These parameters are compared with values for the isoelectronic O(3) molecule. The transition mentioned above was also measured for (32)SO(2), (34)SO(2), SO(18)O, and vibrationally excited (v(2) = 1) (32)SO(2). For (33)SO(2), some transitions with large hyperfine splitting were also recorded in the millimeter-wave region. Continuing our investigations of the rotational spectra of SO(2) in the submillimeter region, several transitions of SO(17)O have been recorded with the Cologne terahertz spectrometer between 540 and 840 GHz with J and K(a) up to 63 and 16, respectively. Transitions with high K(a), up to 28, have been recorded with the JPL laser sideband spectrometer between 1.8 and 3.2 THz. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.