A Reinvestigation of the Vibration Spectrum of Ozone

Several analyses of the vibration spectrum of ozone have been proposed in recent years, all of which have been open to serious objection. Either they have failed to account for the observed structure of all the infrared bands, or if consistent with this structure have required an acute angled molecular model which is not in accord with the structure determination by electron diffraction. These difficulties appear to have resulted in part from some misconceptions regarding the relative intensities of the ozone bands, but chiefly from the previous failure to recognize the fundamental band of the vibration v_1.