Gas-Phase Spectroscopy of the Unstable Acetonitrile <i>N</i>-Oxide Molecule, CH<sub>3</sub>CNO
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The unstable acetonitrile N -oxide molecule, CH 3 CNO, has been thermolytically generated in very high yield in the gas phase from its stable ring dimer, dimethylfuroxan, and studied by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy, photoionization mass spectroscopy, and mid-infrared spectroscopy. The individual spectroscopies provide a detailed investigation into the vibrational and electronic character of the molecule, and are supported by both conventional ab initio calculations and density functional theory. The ground-state structure is also investigated by theory at the B3-LYP, MP n ( n = 2−4), QCISD, and QCISD(T) levels with medium to large basis sets, and illustrates the need for a precise description of electron correlation. Given that both isomerization and dimerization are feasible loss processes for this unstable molecule, the relative stability of CH 3 CNO with respect to the known cyanate (CH 3 OCN), isocyanate (CH 3 NCO), and fulminate (CH 3 ONC) isomers and the mechanism of the dimerization processes were studied with density functional theory.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".