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. 2017 Dec 16;17(2):22. doi: 10.1007/s11128-017-1792-7

Table 2.

Examples of chemical compounds with their corresponding barrier height and free rotor energy

Compound V0(meV) F(meV) ΔE0(GHz) Regime
o-fluorotoluene 28.14 0.64 20 Intermediate [18]
m-fluorotoluene 2.6 0.66 860 Free Rotor [22]
Lithium acetate 60 [15]
4-Methylpyridine 7.3 120 Intermediate [23]
o-toluidine 86.79 0.66 350 Intermediate [24, 25]

In the third column, the ΔE0 is the energy splitting between (λ=±1,n=0) and (λ=0,n=0) levels of the torsional states (or the splitting between l=0 and l=± levels of the rotational states, in the limit of the free rotor)