Bending vibrations in infrared spectroscopy

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In infrared spectroscopy, absorption of energy correlates to characteristic stretching and bending vibrations of functional groups in molecules. 

Infrared spectroscopy also provides information on molecular microstructure, e.g. the repeat units resulting from addition polymerization of dienes. For example, polyisoprenes (Fig. 2.9) can be distinguished, based on differences in absorption between C-H out-of-plane bending vibrations. The infrared spectra of stereoregular polymers are also distinct from those of their less regular counterparts, but these differences do not arise directly from tacticity but indirectly due to its effect on chain conformation. 

Most infrared spectroscopy of complexes is carried out in tire mid-infrared, which is tire region in which tire monomers usually absorb infrared radiation. Van der Waals complexes can absorb mid-infrared radiation eitlier witli or without simultaneous excitation of intennolecular bending and stretching vibrations. The mid-infrared bands tliat contain tire most infonnation about intennolecular forces are combination bands, in which tire intennolecular vibrations are excited. Such spectra map out tire vibrational and rotational energy levels associated witli monomers in excited vibrational states and, tluis, provide infonnation on interaction potentials involving excited monomers, which may be slightly different from Arose for ground-state molecules. 

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy (Section 13.20) Analytical technique based on energy absorbed by a molecule as it vibrates by stretching and bending bonds. Infrared spectroscopy is useful for analyzing the functional groups in a molecule. 

Infrared spectroscopy an analytical technique that quantifies the vibration (stretching and bending) that occurs when a molecule absorbs (heat) energy in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. 

Using infrared spectroscopy, Yates (299) proved the existence of hydroxyl groups on anatase as well as on rutile. Both forms still contained some adsorbed molecular water after evacuation at 150°, as evidenced by the bending vibration at 1605 cm b After outgassing at 350°, no free water was detected. There remained two OH stretching absorptions in the case of anatase (at 3715 and 3675 cm ) and one weak band at 3680 cm with rutile. This is indication of the existence of two different types of OH groups on anatase. These results were confirmed by Smith (300). 

The insoluble material is assumed to be the graft copolymer and this is verified by infrared spectroscopy. For grafting onto the butadiene portion of a copolymer, the C-H out-of-plane bending vibrations as well as the olefin C-H stretching vibration are most useful. The graft copolymer of acrylonitrile onto polystyrene cannot be analyzed by infrared spectroscopy since the only change would be in the C-H overtone region and these bands are too weak to permit interpretation. 

Within each electronic energy level is a set of vibrational levels. These represent changes in the stretching and bending of covalent bonds. The importance of these energy levels will not be discussed here, but transitions between the vibrational levels are the basis of infrared spectroscopy. 

Another technique that can be used to determine the chemical nature of a thin film is infrared spectroscopy. Some materials will absorb certain frequencies in the infrared (wavelengths 2 to 25 microns) because of the excitation of vibrational energy transitions in molecular species. In the same way that electronic transitions in atoms can absorb radiation of specific frequencies, the vibration of a molecule (stretching or bending) will have a resonance value, and it will be excited by any radiation of this frequency. Consider the H20 molecule and its three vibrational modes, as shown in Figure 17. Clearly, each of these vibrational modes has its own resonant frequency, as indicated, and they are all in the infrared range. 

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