Infrared isotopic substitution

Infrared absorption properties of 2-aminothiazole were reported with those of 52 other thiazoles (113). N-Deuterated 2-aminothiazole and 2-amino-4-methylthiazo e were submitted to intensive infrared investigations. All the assignments were performed using gas-phase studies of the shape of the vibration-rotation bands, dichroism, isotopic substitution, and separation of frequencies related to H-bonded and free species (115). With its ten atoms, this compound has 24 fundamental vibrations 18 for the skeleton and 6 for NHo. For the skeleton (Cj symmetry) 13 in-plane vibrations of A symmetry (2v(- h, 26c-h- Irc-N- and 7o)r .cieu.J and... 

The simple harmonic oscillator picture of a vibrating molecule has important implications. First, knowing the frequency, one can immediately calculate the force constant of the bond. Note from Eq. (11) that k, as coefficient of r, corresponds to the curvature of the interatomic potential and not primarily to its depth, the bond energy. However, as the depth and the curvature of a potential usually change hand in hand, the infrared frequency is often taken as an indicator of the strength of the bond. Second, isotopic substitution can be useful in the assignment of frequencies to bonds in adsorbed species, because frequency shifts due to isotopic substitution (of for example D for H in adsorbed ethylene, or OD for OH in methanol) can be predicted directly. 

Hipps KW, Aplin AT (1985) The tricyanomethanide ion an infrared, Raman, and tunneling spectroscopy study including isotopic substitution. J Phys Chem 89 5459-5464... 

A detailed study, including the use of isotopic substitution, of the infrared (IR) and Raman spectra of the triazolotetrazine-4,6-di-A -oxide 35 has been reported <1995MC100, 1995IZV2187>, and characteristic vibration frequencies of the tetrazine dioxide fragment have been identified. 

Nickel carbonyl is by far the best-known of these compounds. All the data support a tetrahedral structure with four equivalent, linear Ni—C—0 arrangements. The Raman (3, 62, 61) and infrared spectra (8, 53, 135, 136) have been investigated and various assignments of the fundamental frequencies have been put forward on the basis of Td symmetry (53, 136, 208). Several approximate coordinate analyses have been made using these assignments, but the spectra of isotopically substituted species have not been measured, so exact evaluations of force constants have not yet proved possible. The Ni—C and C—0 stretching force constants are particularly important and the values obtained by workers using various approximations are included in Table I. 

All nonlinear molecules have 3n — 6 vibrational modes, where n is the number of atoms. Some of these modes arc active in the infrared spectrum, some are active in the Raman spectrum, and others do not give directly observable transitions. Analyses of these spectra usually make use of isotopically substituted molecules to provide additional experimental data, and in recent years, theoretical calculations of vibrational spectra have aided both in making assignments of the observed bands, and in providing initial estimates of force constants.97 Standard methods are available for relating the experimental data to the force constants for the vibrational modes from which they are derived.98... 

Infrared and Raman spectroscopy are in current use fo r elucidating the molecular structures of nucleic acids. The application of infrared spectroscopy to studies of the structure of nucleic acids has been reviewed,135 as well as of Raman spectroscopy.136 It was noted that the assignments are generally based on isotopic substitution, or on comparison of the spectrum of simple molecules that are considered to form a part of the polynucleotide chain to that of the nucleic acid. The vibrational spectra are generally believed to be a good complementary technique in the study of chemical reactions, as in the study76 of carbohydrate complexation with boric acid. In this study, the i.r. data demonstrated that only ribose forms a solid complex with undissociated H3B03, and that the complexes are polymeric. 

In the limited space available this paper has attempted to give an overview of the ways that transmission infrared spectroscopy has been applied to the study of high surface area materials. Developments in improved sample preparation and the use of isotopic substitution have been discussed. The more quantitative aspect of work accomplished in the last decade has been emphasized by giving examples of adsorbtion isotherms on individual sites and the subsequent reactivity of the adsorbed molecules with these sites. 

Although routine reports of infrared spectra have often been published, there have been few recent accounts of more complete studies involving Raman measurements, isotopic substitution, or force-constant calculations. Table XVIII also shows that relatively few different types of compounds have received this degree of attention. 

We demonstrated how the photoisomerization hypothesis can be supported by accurate quantum chemical calculations (103). The experimental infrared and resonance Raman study of complex 5 led to the first determination of normal modes and force constants of diazene coordinated to a metal fragment. Isotope substitution yielding 15N- and 2H-isotopomers permitted the assignment of diazene normal modes in the experimental spectrum. Moreover, the spectra of these three isotopomers indicated that a laser-induced photoisomerization occurred in the Raman sample. However, a detailed assignment of the split bands was not possible in the experiment. 

A useful way of changing the wavelength of some lasers, for example the C02 infrared laser, is to use isotopically substituted material in which the wavelengths of laser transitions are appreciably altered. 

Fig. 2. The infrared absorptions of HArF in an argon matrix at 7.5 K, showing how Ar/ Ar ind H/D isotopic substitutions allowed the identification of these bands. Reproduced with permission from Fig. 1 in Ref. (6).

Practical problems associated with infrared dichroism measurements include the requirement of a band absorbance lower than 0.7 in the general case, in order to use the Beer-Lambert law in addition infrared bands should be sufficently well assigned and free of overlap with other bands. The specificity of infrared absorption bands to particular chemical functional groups makes infrared dichroism especially attractive for a detailed study of submolecular orientations of materials such as polymers. For instance, information on the orientation of both crystalline and amorphous phases in semicrystalline polymers may be obtained if absorption bands specific of each phase can be found. Polarized infrared spectroscopy can also yield detailed information on the orientational behavior of each component of a pol3mier blend or of the different chemical sequences of a copoljnner. Infrar dichroism studies do not require any chain labelling but owing to the mass dependence of the vibrational frequency, pronounced shifts result upon isotopic substitution. It is therefore possible to study binary mixtures of deuterated and normal polymers as well as isotopically-labelled block copolymers and thus obtain information simultaneously on the two t3q>es of units. 

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