15min:

ERIN B. KENT, MORGAN N. MCCABE, MARIA A. PHILLIPS, BRITTANY P. GORDON AND STEVEN T. SHIPMAN, Division of Natural Sciences, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL 34243.

The microwave spectrum of allyl chloride at 0~^\circC was measured from 8.7--18.3~GHz with waveguide chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy (CP-FTMW). The spectrum consists of contributions from ³⁵Cl and ³⁷Cl isotopomers of the cis and skew isomers. As the vibrational partition function for each of these conformers is approximately 4, the microwave spectrum contains a few thousand transitions with intensities above a 3:1 S/N ratio after a few hours of averaging. We will discuss our progress on the analysis of this spectrum, which has been aided with an automated strategy to find candidate assignments.