Singly deuterated isotopologues of formamide

One of the keys for understanding the mechanisms for forming formamide in massive hot cores is the comparison of the relative abundances of its deuterated isotopologues. No deuterated species of formamide have been detected to date mostly owing to the lack of laboratory spectral data, which is limited by cm-wave measurements up to 40GHz.

Therefore, we decided to extend the measurements and the analysis of the rotational spectra of deuterated isotopologues of formamide into terahertz range. We measured the rotational spectra of deuterated formamide in the frequency range 150-950GHz using the Lille fast-scan and solid-state source spectrometers. The ground vibrational states of 4 different isotopologues of formamide, DCONH_2_, cis-HCONHD, trans-HCONHD, and HCOND_2_ were assigned and analysed.