Reorientation correlation function

Other orientational correlation coefficients can be calculated in the same way as tf correlation coefficients that we have discussed already. Thus, the reorientational coiTelatio coefficient of a single rigid molecule indicates the degree to which the orientation of molecule at a time t is related to its orientation at time 0. The angular velocity autocorrelatio function is the rotational equivalent of the velocity correlation function ... 

Dynamic information such as reorientational correlation functions and diffusion constants for the ions can readily be obtained. Collective properties such as viscosity can also be calculated in principle, but it is difficult to obtain accurate results in reasonable simulation times. Single-particle properties such as diffusion constants can be determined more easily from simulations. Figure 4.3-4 shows the mean square displacements of cations and anions in dimethylimidazolium chloride at 400 K. The rapid rise at short times is due to rattling of the ions in the cages of neighbors. The amplitude of this motion is about 0.5 A. After a few picoseconds the mean square displacement in all three directions is a linear function of time and the slope of this portion of the curve gives the diffusion constant. These diffusion constants are about a factor of 10 lower than those in normal molecular liquids at room temperature. 

Although long-time Debye relaxation proceeds exponentially, short-time deviations are detectable which represent inertial effects (free rotation between collisions) as well as interparticle interaction during collisions. In Debye s limit the spectra have already collapsed and their Lorentzian centre has a width proportional to the rotational diffusion coefficient. In fact this result is model-independent. Only shape analysis of the far wings can discriminate between different models of molecular reorientation and explain the high-frequency pecularities of IR and FIR spectra (like Poley absorption). In the conclusion of Chapter 2 we attract the readers attention to the solution of the inverse problem which is the extraction of the angular momentum correlation function from optical spectra of liquids. 

Here u is a unit vector oriented along the rotational symmetry axis, while in a spherical molecule it is an arbitrary vector rigidly connected to the molecular frame. The scalar product u(t) (0) is cos 0(t) in classical theory, where 6(t) is the angle of u reorientation with respect to its initial position. It can be easily seen that both orientational correlation functions are the average values of the corresponding Legendre polynomials ... 

Dill J. F., Litovitz T. A., Bucaro J. A. Molecular reorientation in liquids by Rayleigh scattering pressure dependence of rotational correlation functions, J. Chem. Phys. 62, 3839-50 (1975). 

Eagles T. E., McClung R. E. D. Reorientational correlation functions and memory functions in the. /-diffusion limit of the extended rotational diffusion model, Chem. Phys. Lett. 22, 414-18 (1973). 

Here the vector rj represents the centre of mass position, and D is usually averaged over several time origins to to improve statistics. Values for D can be resolved parallel and perpendicular to the director to give two components (D//, Dj ), and actual values are summarised for a range of studies in Table 3 of [45]. Most studies have found diffusion coefficients in the 10 m s range with the ratio D///Dj between 1.59 and 3.73 for calamitic liquid crystals. Yakovenko and co-workers have carried out a detailed study of the reorientational motion in the molecule PCH5 [101]. Their results show that conformational molecular flexibility plays an important role in the dynamics of the molecule. They also show that cage models can be used to fit the reorientational correlation functions of the molecule. 

Reorientational relaxation times, tJ can be estimated from the assumed exponential decay of the orientational correlation functions cf(/), defined as the average of the / I.egendre polynomial of cos 0, ... 

As seen from the above theoretical developments, accessing geometrical (and stereochemical) information implies at least an estimation of the dynamical part of the various relaxation parameters. The latter is represented by spectral densities which rest on the calculation of the Fourier transform of auto- or cross-correlation functions. These calculations require necessarily a model for describing molecular reorientation... 

Small-step rotational diffusion is the model universally used for characterizing the overall molecular reorientation. If the molecule is of spherical symmetry (or approximately this is generally the case for molecules of important size), a single rotational diffusion coefficient is needed and the molecular tumbling is said isotropic. According to this model, correlation functions obey a diffusion type equation and we can write... 

Without regard for deformational and rotational vibrations of unit vectors e(ij, the qualitative behavior of the time dependence of the correlation function for two-dimensional reorientations is describable by the following relation ... 

For the initial time t = 0, the above formula (A2.7) is identical with the result of averaging over random orientations in a surface plane. In the course of time, the "memory" of the initial orientation fades, the condition t w 1 (w 1 is the average period between reorientations) permitting an independent averaging over ea(t) and e (0), and the correlation function (A2.7) tends to zero. 

A small step rotational diffusion model has been used to describe molecular rotations (MR) of rigid molecules in the presence of a potential of mean torque.118 120,151 t0 calculate the orientation correlation functions, the rotational diffusion equation must be solved to give the conditional probability for the molecule in a certain orientation at time t given that it has a different orientation at t = 0, and the equilibrium probability for finding the molecule with a certain orientation. These orientation correlation functions were found as a sum of decaying exponentials.120 In the notation of Tarroni and Zannoni,123 the spectral denisities (m = 0, 1, 2) for a deuteron fixed on a reorienting symmetric top molecule are ... 

As indicated, the power law approximations to the fS-correlator described above are only valid asymptotically for a —> 0, but corrections to these predictions have been worked out.102,103 More important, however, is the assumption of the idealized MCT that density fluctuations are the only slow variables. This assumption breaks down close to Tc. The MCT has been augmented by coupling to mass currents, which are sometimes termed inclusion of hopping processes, but the extension of the theory to temperatures below Tc or even down to Tg has not yet been successful.101 Also, the theory is often not applied to experimental density fluctuations directly (observed by neutron scattering) but instead to dielectric relaxation or to NMR experiments. These latter techniques probe reorientational motion of anisotropic molecules, whereas the MCT equation describes a scalar quantity. Using MCT results to compare with dielectric or NMR experiments thus forces one to assume a direct coupling of orientational correlations with density fluctuations exists. The different orientational correlation functions and the question to what extent they directly couple to the density fluctuations have been considered in extensions to the standard MCT picture.104-108... 

The measured spin relaxation parameters (longitudinal and transverse relaxation rates, Ri and P2> and heteronuclear steady-state NOE) are directly related to power spectral densities (SD). These spectral densities, J(w), are related via Fourier transformation with the corresponding correlation functions of reorientional motion. In the case of the backbone amide 15N nucleus, where the major sources of relaxation are dipolar interaction with directly bonded H and 15N CSA, the standard equations read [21] ... 

In order to extract some more information from the csa contribution to relaxation times, the next step is to switch to a molecular frame (x,y,z) where the shielding tensor is diagonal (x, y, z is called the Principal Axis System i.e., PAS). Owing to the properties reported in (44), the relevant calculations include the transformation of gzz into g x, yy, and g z involving, for the calculation of spectral densities, the correlation function of squares of trigonometric functions such as cos20(t)cos20(O) (see the previous section and more importantly Eq. (29) for the definition of the normalized spectral density J((d)). They yield for an isotropic reorientation (the molecule is supposed to behave as a sphere)... 

Westlund developed also a theory for PRE in the ZFS-dominated limit for S = 1, which included a stringent Redfield-limit approach to the electron spin relaxation in this regime (118). Equations (35) and (38) were used as the starting point also in this case. Again, the correlation function in the integrand of Eq. (38) was expressed as a product of a rotational part and the spin part. However, since it is in this case appropriate to work in the principal frame of the static ZFS, the rotational part becomes proportional to exp(—t/3tb) (if Tfl is the correlation time for reorientation of rank two spherical harmonics, then 3t is the correlation time for rank one spherical... 

A possible step in this direction can be made through use of earlier relaxation studies on other systems. Hunt and Powles,— when studying the proton relaxation in liquids and glasses, found the relaxation best described by a "defect-diffusion" model, in which a non-exponential correlation function corresponding to diffusion is Included together with the usual exponential function corresponding to rotational motion. The correlation function is taken as the product of the two independent reorientation pro-... 

One of the most direct methods of examining reorientational motion of molecules is by far infrared absorption spectroscopy or dielectric absorption. In the absence of vibrational relaxation, the relaxation times obtained by IR and dielectric methods are equivalent. In both these techniques we obtain the correlation function, [Pg.209]

Fig. 4 Dipolar reorientational time correlation function, Cw(t) for bound water molecules in the micellar solution, and for bulk water molecules.

An important signature of the dynamics of water molecules is the reorientation of its dipole vector that can be probed by dielectric and NMR measurements. We have calculated the single molecule dipole-dipole time correlation function (TCF), defined as,... 

Fig. 8 Reorientational time correlation function of the water dipole, C (<), for water molecules in the three segments of the protein.

If the infrared band profile of single vibrational transition is given by Lorentzian, the band profile corresponds to the reorientational and vibrational time-correlation functions of exponential form, the relaxation time is expressed by,... 

The shape of the vibration-rotation bands in infrared absorption and Raman scattering experiments on diatomic molecules dissolved in a host fluid have been used to determine2,15 the autocorrelation functions unit vector pointing along the molecular axis and P2(x) is the Legendre polynomial of index 2. These correlation functions measure the rate of rotational reorientation of the molecule in the host fluid. The observed temperature- and density-dependence of these functions yields a great deal of information about reorientation in solids, liquids, and gases. These correlation functions have been successfully evaluated on the basis of molecular models.15... 

These results are now in terms of correlation functions of P2Ct) and, in the field on cases, of P (t), as in linear dielectric and other response theories. The asymmetry given by the last term of the field on expression reveals the interesting possibility of obtaining both P correlations (from the field off response) and P correlations (from the asymmetry). One easily verifies that Benoit s result is obtained for diffusional reorientations, as then = (l/5)exp(-6D t), -(2/15)exp(-6Dt), and PoP2PlPl(t)> = (2/15)exp(-2D t)7 but this form of dynamics is not assumed in the development End effects of joint correlations Eire included in eqs.13 and 14. 

Danninger W, Zundel G. Reorientational motion and orientational correlation functions in weakly associated organic liquids by depolarized Rayleigh scattering. Chem Phys Lett 1982 90 69-75. 

A. Molecular Reorientation Correlation Function, Spectrum, and Susceptibility... 

The NMR frequencies at two times separated by the time tm, and thus the corresponding orientations [cf. Eq. (15)] are correlated via cosine functions. The correlation function CSin(fm tp), where the cosine functions are replaced by sine functions, may also be accessible modifying pulse lengths and pulse phases in an appropriate way. This is possible for both CSA and Q interactions. Rotational jumps of the molecules during the mixing time tm lead to 0)>(0) / tm), and hence to a decay of CCOSjSin(fm tp). Therefore, these correlation functions provide access to the details of the molecular reorientation dynamics. 

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