An absorption spectrum of the SnH4 molecule has been measured with Doppler limited resolution in the region of 1903 - 1960 cm-1 by means of a tunable diode laser spectrometer. Infrared transitions of the Q- and R-branches of allowed (nu) 3 (F2) and 'forbidden' (nu) 1 (A1) bands were observed. These two states were found to be strongly mixed by the rotational-vibrational interaction, and as a consequence the (nu) 1 band appears in absorption. Wave numbers of transitions to the (nu) 1, (nu) 3 energy levels with the quantum number of angular momentum J equals 1 - 15 have been obtained with an accuracy of about 0.001 cm-1. More than 230 transitions of the 120SnH4 isotopic species were used for simultaneous analysis of the (nu) 1, (nu) 3 resonance states. In this way, 21 spectroscopic parameters of the upper states have been determined using a model Hamiltonian, which explicitly takes into account the resonance interaction. The parameters obtained reproduce the experimental spectrum with r.m.s. discrepancy of 0.002 cm-1.
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