Advice for Your Literature Review

General Tips

  • Look for your molecule's name in the title and abstract; if it is not in either of these, the paper is probably not useful for you.

Good Keywords (this is the sort of data we want!

  • Fourier Spectroscopy
  • High resolution
  • Spectroscopic
  • Doppler-limited
  • Infrared
  • Ultraviolet
  • The A1Pi --> X1Sigma system of ..., the a3Delta--> b3Pi etc
  • Rotational, microwave

Be wary of the paper if it contains any of the following keywords in the title or abstract (note: it might have useful results as well as irrelevant data...)

  • Zeeman splitting
  • Electron spin resonance
  • Theoretical
  • Ab-initio
  • Computational analysis
  • DFT, MP2, CCSD(T), cc-pVTZ