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The construction of a millimeterwave spectrometer to study the pure rotational spectra of transient molecules in the gas phase is presented. The spectrometer is a source-modulated system combined with a free space glass discharge cell. Millimeterwave radiation has been produced using a frequency multiplier, the fundamental radiation source being klystrons. The spectrometer has been used to study the millimeterwave spectrum of carbon monosulfide (CS) and fluorine cyanide (FCN) produced inside the cell in a low pressure DC discharge of precursor gases. The quadrupole hyperfine structures of33S and14N nucleus of CS and FCN have been resolved, measured and analysed.

The ground state microwave rotational spectrum of the C-gauche conformer of allyl isothiocyanate has been reinvestigated by extending the frequency range up to 37.0 GHz. A detailed centrifugal distortion analysis has been carried out with previously reported and newly assigned microwave rotational transition frequencies. The evaluated rotational and centrifugal distortion constants are presented.

The microwave spectrum ofcis 3-fluorophenol involving rotational states up toJ=28 has been observed and analysed in the frequency range 23–25 GHz in the ground vibrational state at room temperature. Analysis yields three rotational and five quartic centrifugal distortion constants. A tentativer 0 structure has been proposed satisfying the observed rotational constants. The small value of the inertia defect Δ=0·07 confirms the planarity of the conformer.