Correlations stretching constants

Table 3 presents the values of the force constants corresponding to the C skeleton vibrations of s-trans-1,3-butadiene obtained at several levels of calculation. The computed values are very sensitive to the inclusion of electron correlation. Stretching C=C and C—C force constants decrease when electron correlation is taken into account. This effect is generally larger for basis sets without polarization functions than for those with polarization functions23. On the contrary, the values of the C=C/C—C and C=C/C=C coupling constants do not vary much upon increasing the level of calculation of electron correlation. 

Since the strength of the metal-ligand bond is directly related to the metal-ligand stretching constant, it is expected that the v(M—O) vibrations will be in the order Al, Ga, In > alkali earth > alkali metals . Correlations were found between the stability constants... 

In the more detailed discussion lide questioned whether the use of dimensionless bond-stretching constants would lose the direct intuitive correlation between the magnitude of the force constant and the frequency, mills replied that his proposal is part of the attempt to separate the kinetic and potential effects on the frequency. If one wishes to correlate force constants to frequencies in different molecules, one must be careful to consider the mass factor, which may change dramatically. The simple intuitive correlation can be misleading. plIva pointed out that the dimensionless force constants are analogous to the reduced potential functions for diatomic molecules. 

Hammen equation A correlation between the structure and reactivity in the side chain derivatives of aromatic compounds. Its derivation follows from many comparisons between rate constants for various reactions and the equilibrium constants for other reactions, or other functions of molecules which can be measured (e g. the i.r. carbonyl group stretching frequency). For example the dissociation constants of a series of para substituted (O2N —, MeO —, Cl —, etc.) benzoic acids correlate with the rate constant k for the alkaline hydrolysis of para substituted benzyl chlorides. If log Kq is plotted against log k, the data fall on a straight line. Similar results are obtained for meta substituted derivatives but not for orthosubstituted derivatives. 

C-nmr data have been recorded and assigned for a great number of hydantoin derivatives (24). As in the case of H-nmr, useful correlations between chemical shifts and electronic parameters have been found. For example, Hammett constants of substituents in the aromatic portion of the molecule correlate weU to chemical shifts of C-5 and C-a in 5-arylmethylenehydantoins (23). Comparison between C-nmr spectra of hydantoins and those of their conjugate bases has been used for the calculation of their piC values (12,25). N-nmr spectra of hydantoins and their thio analogues have been studied (26). The N -nmr chemical shifts show a linear correlation with the frequencies of the N—H stretching vibrations in the infrared spectra. 

The optimum value of c is determined by the variational principle. If c = 1, the UHF wave function is identical to RHF. This will normally be the case near the equilibrium distance. As the bond is stretched, the UHF wave function allows each of the electrons to localize on a nucleus c goes towards 0. The point where the RHF and UHF descriptions start to differ is often referred to as the RHF/UHF instability point. This is an example of symmetry breaking, as discussed in Section 3.8.3. The UHF wave function correctly dissociates into two hydrogen atoms, however, the symmetry breaking of the MOs has two other, closely connected, consequences introduction of electron correlation and spin contamination. To illustrate these concepts, we need to look at the 4 o UHF determinant, and the six RHF determinants in eqs. (4.15) and (4.16) in more detail. We will again ignore all normalization constants. 

Similarly, the Kass determined by the H NMR chemical shift of CHC13 in the presence of sulphoxides can be correlated well with the association constants obtained both on the basis of the IR stretching shift (AvOH) of phenol in the presence of sulphoxide and also with the 19F NMR chemical shifts of p-fluorophenol (<5,F). 

The correlation of stretching wavenumbers to the bond lengths is a spec-troscopical expression of the dependence of the valence force constant fr from the bond length r [197-199] which is presented in Fig. 33 ... 

Dipole moments of substituted nitriles were correlated with the a constants by Taft and with the Op constants by Charton (18). In addition to dipole moment data, some information is available on the C=N stretching frequencies of substituted nitriles. The sets studied are reported in Table XXXVI. Results of the correlations with eq. (2) are given in Table XXXVII, and values of Pr are set forth in Table XXXVIII. The correlation of the dipole moments of substituted nitriles with eq. (2) gave significant results, which were very much improved by the exclusion of the value for X=I (set 36-1-2). In contrast to the results obtained for substituted ethylenes, acetylenes, and benzenes, the value of /3 obtained for dipole moments of substituted nitriles is not significant. The value of a obtained for the substituted nitriles is comparable to the value of a observed for the substituted acetylenes. 

The calculations were performed at the semiempirical level using AMI parametrization. The results for the methyl chloride reaction (Table 8) supported Williams earlier findings for the methylammonium ion-ammonia reaction (p. 147) and the results by Wolfe and Kim in that the inverse secondary a-deuterium KIE arose from an increase in the C —H stretching force constants which accompanied the change from sp3 hybridization at the a-carbon in the reactant to the spMike hybridization in the transition state. More important, however, were the observations that (i) the total KIE is dominated by the vibrational (ZPE) component of the KIE with which it correlates linearly, and (ii) that the inverse contribution from the C —H(D) stretching vibrations is almost constant for all the reactions. Ibis suggests that the contribution from the other vibrations, i.e. the rest in Table 8, determines the magnitude of the KIE. In fact, Barnes and Williams stated that the... 

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