Dipole moment change

At this level of theory, the calculated equilibrium bond length is 110.47 pm, and the dipole moment changes sign around which may explain why one has to work so hard to achieve agreement with experiment. The dipole derivative can be found by numerical methods from the data points. 

This is not an SCRF model, as the dipole moment and stabilization are not calculated in a self-consistent way. When the back-polarization of the medium is taken into account, the dipole moment changes, depending on how polarizable the molecule is. Taking only the first-order effect into account, the stabilization becomes (a is the molecular polarizability, the first-order change in the dipole moment with respect to an electric field, Section 10.1.1). 

Infrared activity of vibrations is readily deduced. The symmetric stretching vibration has no associated dipole moment change during the vibration and is, therefore, infrared inactive. The asymmetric stretching vibration has an associated dipole moment which fluctuates with the frequency of the vibration. The vibration is, therefore, infrared active. 

For example, infra-red dichroism measurements will give a value for . If the direction of dipole moment change for the vibration under consideration makes an angle S, with the chain axis, the average for the chain distribution in 0 relates to by the simple relationship... 

The frequencies of these vibrations generally decrease in the order v > 8 > y > x. Not all vibrations can be observed absorption of an IR photon occurs only if a dipole moment changes during the vibration. The intensity of the IR band is proportional to the change in dipole moment. Thus species with polar bonds (e.g. CO, NO and OH) exhibit strong IR bands, whereas molecules such as H2 and N2 are not infrared active at all. 

The PPP-MO method is capable of calculating not only the magnitude of the dipole moment change on excitation, but it can also predict the direction of the electron transfer. The vector quantity that expresses the magnitude and direction of the electronic transition is referred to as the transition dipole moment. For example, the direction of the transition dipole moment of azo dye 15f as calculated by the PPP-MO method is illustrated in Figure 2.15. 

Mukherjee, S., Chattopadhyay, A., Samanta, A. and Soujanya, T. (1994). Dipole-moment change of Nbd group upon excitation Studied using solvatochromic and quantum-chemical approaches - Implications in membrane research. J. Phys. Chem. 98, 2809-2812. 

The obtained results are in agreement with our previous hypothesis [2-4] that absolute intensities and the distribution of relative intensities of IR bands in the spectra of adsorbed species are sensitive to the chemical activation of the corresponding bonds arising from polarization by adsorption sites. Hence, in addition to the low frequency shifts, intensites can be used as a criterion for chemical activation. Indeed, according to the fundamentals of IR spectroscopy, the intensities of IR stretching bands are proportional to the square of the dipole moment changes (dp) created by the stretching vibrations over the normal coordinates q of these vibrations [6] I °c [dp/d q]2. 

Mechanism EELS applied in the off-specular mode detects all vibrations, whereas RAIRS only detects vibrations in which a dipole moment changes perpendicular to the surface. 

For any molecular vibration that leads to infrared absorption, there is a periodic change in electric dipole moment. In case the direction of this change is parallel to component of the electric vector of the infrared radiation, absorption takes place otherwise it does not. In oriented bulk polymers, the dipole-moment change can be confined to specified directions. The use of polarised infrared radiation in such a case leads to absorption which is a function of the orientation of the plane of polarisation. The... 

Figure 2 Correlation of potential energy and dipole moment change with dihedral angle, ic.11 Reprinted with permission from El-Sayed, I. Hatanaka, Y. Onozawa, S. Tanaka, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 3597-3598. 2001 American Chemical Society.

A schematic curve showing how the dipole moment changes as internuclear distance increases is shown in Fig. 12.2. The figure nicely explains the observation that dipole moment IE s for diatomic molecules can be either normal or inverse depending whether the equilibrium bond length of the diatomic lies to the left (where (9p/9r)e > 0 and consequently Ap > 0) or the right (where (9p/9r)e < 0 and Ap < 0) of the maximum in the plot. The existence of the maximum is readily understandable in qualitative terms. Even though classically the dipole moment... 

So far, various kinds of polymers which change their conformation reversibly by photoirradiation have been reported [1-6]. The polymers contain pendant or backbone photoisomerizable chromophores, and the molecular property changes, such as geometrical structure or dipole moment changes, control the conformation. The polymers change their conformation in proportion to the number of photoisomerized chromophores. Thus, when the polymers contain more photoisomerizable chromophores and absorb more photons, the conformation changes more. Physical and chemical properties associated with the conformation changes also vary with the number of absorbed photons. 

In 1969, Suppan reviewed experimental data about dipole moment changes in excited states of substituted aromatic molecules and suggested a theoretical approach according to which charge transfer occurs if the lowest vacant orbitals are very close in energy.41 In 1978, Birks introduced the term horizontal radiationless transition, which was applied to intramolecular rotation in stilbene and polyene derivatives.37 In this... 

An electrical dipole is required for IR energy to be efficiently absorbed by a molecule. Thus, bonds between different elements will give more prominent absorption peaks than will symmetrical bonds. This is because the bond s dipole moment changes as the bond stretches and contracts. Symmetrical bonds do not change dipole moment even if the bond distance changes. Usually, the most prominent peaks are observed when the electronegativity difference between the bound elements is greatest. Thus, a C—O bond will usually be more prominent than a C—H bond. 

As the frequency range is scanned the various infrared active vibrations (i.e. those involving a dipole moment change) will sequentially absorb radiation as the energy equivalence of the radiation and the particular vibrational mode is met, giving rise to a series of absorptions. 

So far only one degree of freedom of the vibration has been considered, namely, in the direction of the wave vector. The removal of this restriction gives transverse optical and acoustical phonons. For these, the atoms or ions move perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation. Again, there are two possibilities. When A and B atoms vibrate in phase, there is no change of dipole moment and one speaks of a transverse acoustical phonon (TA). However, for a vibration with opposite phases in the A and B atoms, the electric dipole moment changes so that we have a transverse optical phonon (TO). 

The cross-section in Eq. (1 illustrates another distinguishing feature of inelastic neutron scattering for vibrational spectroscopy, i.e., the absence of dipole and polarizability selection rules. In contrast, it is believed that in optical and inelastic electron surface spectroscopies that a vibrating molecule must possess a net component of a static or induced dipole moment perpendicular to a metal surface in order for the vibrational transition to be observed ( 7,8). This is because dipole moment changes of the vibrating molecule parallel to the surface are canceled by an equal image moment induced in the metal. 

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